Black Building (1931), Fargo, North Dakota
Fargo’s tallest structure when it opened in 1931, this eight-story Art Moderne tower in Indiana limestone was commissioned by a newspaper publisher who made…
Fargo’s tallest structure when it opened in 1931, this eight-story Art Moderne tower in Indiana limestone was commissioned by a newspaper publisher who made…
Five hundred and forty feet of PWA Moderne limestone along the Mississippi, with a 350-foot bronze chandelier that has hung at the center of it all since…
The first skyscraper to pierce Miami’s skyline after the crash of 1928, a 17-story proof that the city had survived its worst decade.
A 1930 Art Deco concert venue on Glenarm Place in Denver — designed by the Chicago firm Rapp & Rapp with murals by Louis Grell and one of only two remaining…
A three-story Art Deco public school at 3909 East 5th Place in Tulsa — built in 1939 using WPA workers by architects Joseph R. Koberling Jr. and Leon B.…
An eight-story Art Deco federal building at 601 25th Street in Galveston — clad in porous fossiliferous limestone whose surface reveals marine shell fossils…
A 1929 Art Deco hotel at 118 North 7th Avenue in downtown Nashville — designed by Marr & Holman, the city’s most prolific early 20th-century architectural…
A sixteen-story Zigzag Moderne tower at the corner of Fifth and Main in Fort Worth — built in 1930 on a site acquired by Texas oil baron Richard Otto Dulaney…
A twenty-three-story Art Deco tower at 821 Second Avenue in downtown Seattle — built to house the Seattle Stock Exchange, at completion the second-tallest…
A 700-seat Art Deco theater at 211 North 3rd Street in Burlington, Iowa — opened July 1, 1937 with a premiere of The Prince and the Pauper (Errol Flynn)…