There's a 1930.

Its fanciness of Art Deco was surely not intended to mock the suffering and desperation of the innocent victims of the Great Depression, but I guess that's what ended up happening.

 

Verily here was the Axis Hotel in downtown Moline, opened in 2019 in the Fifth Avenue Building, a/k/a the Fifth Avenue Block, originally an office building. The official documentation of the Moline Downtown Commercial Historic District says the building is from 1930, as does the Rock Island County GIS Public Mapping App. The hotel's website has a page about the history of the building, which says it was built in 1927, even as it shows a series of pictures of the building under construction, dated from December 1929 well into 1930, as if we wouldn't notice the discrepancy. This page prepared by members of the Moline Heritage Preservation Commission says construction didn't begin until 1931, which is contradicted by the pictures on the hotel's website.

 

But anyway, I have DECIDED TO BELIEVE it was completed in 1930, at least mostly.

 

-----------------------

 

In downtown Moline, Illinois, on May 21st, 2023, the Axis Hotel at the southwest corner of 5th Avenue and 17th Street, a "contributing property" in the Moline Downtown Commercial Historic District, 07000856 on the National Register of Historic Places.

 

-----------------------

 

Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Moline (7014089)

• Rock Island (county) (2000528)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• architectural terracotta (300010670)

• Art Deco (300021426)

• brick (clay material) (300010463)

• glazed terracotta (300298634)

• historic buildings (300008063)

• historic districts (300000737)

• hotels (public accommodations) (300007166)

• light brown (300127503)

• oblique views (300015503)

• office buildings (300007043)

• repurposing (300417716)

• skybridges (300138975)

 

Wikidata items:

• 21 May 2023 (Q69306806)

• 1920s in architecture (Q11185486)

• 1929 in architecture (Q2744495)

• 1930 in architecture (Q2744912)

• 1930s in architecture (Q16482516)

• 2010s in commerce (Q107327248)

• 2019 in commerce (Q111333074)

• Art Deco architecture (Q12720942)

• contributing property (Q76321820)

• Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area (Q7268261)

• glazed architectural terra-cotta (Q5567349)

• May 21 (Q2580)

• May 2023 (Q61312956)

• Moline Downtown Commercial Historic District (Q6896191)

• National Register of Historic Places (Q3719)

• Quad Cities (Q1660598)

• Treaty of St. Louis (1804) (Q28433157)

• Treaty of St. Louis (1816) (Q28433158)

• Western Illinois (Q14925128)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Historic districts—Illinois (sh94002875)

• Office buildings—Illinois (sh85094174)

Done