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The year 1933 has taken the form of a federal courthouse in Greensboro.

We get a bunch of Indiana limestone (from you-know-where) on a base of Mount Airy granite (from North Carolina).

 

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In downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, on June 1st, 2022, the L. Richardson Preyer Federal Building and Courthouse (the headquarters of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina; built 1931-1933 as the United States Court House and Post Office; designed by Murphy and Olmsted; 14000886 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the northeast corner of East Market Street and North Eugene Street.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Greensboro (7014135)

• Guilford (county) (2001500)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• Art Deco (300021426)

• courthouses (300005969)

• federal government (300055506)

• historic buildings (300008063)

• granite (rock) (300011183)

• Indiana limestone (300011321)

• post offices (300006036)

• traffic signals (300003915)

 

Wikidata items:

• 1 June 2022 (Q69306447)

• 1930s in architecture (Q16482516)

• 1933 in architecture (Q2744667)

• Art Deco architecture (Q12720942)

• federal building (Q51183740)

• Federal Government of the United States (Q48525)

• Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point, NC Combined Statistical Area (Q112612612)

• June 1 (Q2625)

• June 2022 (Q61312787)

• L. Richardson Preyer (Q1797788)

• L. Richardson Preyer Federal Building (Q6456608)

• National Register of Historic Places (Q3719)

• Piedmont Triad (Q3067058)

• signalized intersection (Q2940218)

• streetcorner (Q17106091)

• United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina (Q7889816)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Courthouses—North Carolina (sh89004288)

• Post office buildings—North Carolina (sh92005759)

 

Union List of Artist Names IDs:

• Murphy and Olmsted (American architectural firm, contemporary) (500293331)

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