U-Drop Inn (1936), Shamrock, Texas
The most photographed Art Deco building on Route 66: a 1936 gas station and café in Shamrock, Texas, whose two flared towers and curved ceramic tile walls…
The most photographed Art Deco building on Route 66: a 1936 gas station and café in Shamrock, Texas, whose two flared towers and curved ceramic tile walls…
Fort Worth’s most vivid statement of Zigzag Moderne: marble floors, metal-inlaid panel ceilings, and nickel and brass fixtures inside a 1931 terminal that is…
Atlanta’s second purpose-built medical tower rose in 1930 with serpents and staffs carved into its Art Deco facade—a building that marked the northward…
A corporate headquarters dressed in Indiana limestone and black granite, its triangular fluted pilasters and lightning bolt transoms expressing the electric…
An eleven-story Art Deco tower that solved the automobile problem before anyone else: seven floors of indoor parking for 500 cars, topped by an office…
A five-story Art Deco courthouse built in 1936 with bas relief panels depicting the ranching, mining, and farming life of northeastern New Mexico—its cattle…
Rhode Island’s tallest building at 428 feet, completed in 1928 with a three-story banking hall and an extraordinary airship gondola room, immortalized by H.…
A limestone Art Deco courthouse completed in 1932 by Holabird and Root, its facade carved by Leo Friedlander and its interior murals mapping the…
A twelve-story Art Deco tower completed in 1931 for Connecticut’s principal telephone company, its granite facade articulated in a rhythmic grid of piers and…
A Depression-era school campus where Art Deco geometry meets Aztec Moderne ornament, considered the finest surviving example of the style in Las Vegas.