Sarasota Municipal Auditorium (1938), Sarasota, Florida
A WPA-funded Art Deco and Moderne bayfront civic hall designed in 1937 by a Cornell dean of architecture, where 3,000 citizens gathered on opening night in…
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United States Bullion Depository (1936), Fort Knox, Kentucky
Built in 1936 to hold America’s gold reserves away from vulnerable coastal cities, this granite-clad Art Deco vault stores 147 million troy ounces of gold…
Asheville High School (1929), Asheville, North Carolina
Douglas Ellington’s $1.3 million public school — the same architect who gave Asheville its Art Deco City Hall — opened in 1929 as a regional model combining…
Charleston Municipal Auditorium (1939), Charleston, West Virginia
West Virginia’s largest theater, built with New Deal funds and dedicated to 5,000 citizens in 1939, where Hank Williams was scheduled to play the night he…
Warner Grand Theater (1931), Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A Warner Brothers Art Deco movie palace built on Wisconsin Avenue in 1931, now reborn as the Bradley Symphony Center — home of the Milwaukee Symphony…
Washoe Theater (1936), Anaconda, Montana
The last theater built in the United States in the Nuevo Deco style, the Washoe stands in a copper-company town as an improbable extravagance: $200,000 of…
Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, Université de Montréal
A university in a single building: Cormier’s pale tower on the mountain’s north slope took fifteen years, one Depression and a world war to open — and became…
Burrard Bridge, Vancouver
A bridge built as a city gate: concrete towers, torch-topped pylons and a steel truss hidden like plumbing — Vancouver’s crossing of 1932 is one of the only…
Grand Theatre (Grand Cinema), Shanghai
“The best cinema of the Far East” still sells tickets on West Nanjing Road: Hudec’s picture palace of 1933, with its glowing sign tower and vertical fins…
The Paramount, Shanghai
百乐门 — the “gate of a hundred pleasures”: Jazz Age Shanghai’s greatest ballroom, built by Chinese money and a Chinese architect, its neon-striped tower and…