Baltimore Trust Company Building (1929), Baltimore, Maryland
When it opened in late 1929, Maryland’s tallest building held a lobby with mosaics by Hildreth Meiere and murals of the Baltimore fire and the National…
When it opened in late 1929, Maryland’s tallest building held a lobby with mosaics by Hildreth Meiere and murals of the Baltimore fire and the National…
Indiana’s tallest skyscraper for three decades, built on the eve of the Great Depression and never stopped.
Phoenix’s 1932 Art Deco tower at Central and Monroe served three decades as the city’s medical-and-banking address, gained Hollywood immortality in the…
Built with New Deal money at the height of the Depression and loosely modeled on the stepped profiles of Mayan temples, the Oklahoma County Courthouse brings…
A late Streamline Moderne jewel named for a naval hero, the Commodore Theatre opened in 1945 as Portsmouth’s grandest picture house and reinvented itself as…
At 417 feet and 32 stories, Saint Paul’s dominant Art Deco skyscraper crowned the Minnesota capital’s skyline from 1931 to 1986—and still marks it from 75…
A PWA Moderne courthouse that chose restraint over ornament—except at the entrance, where Alfonso Ianelli’s monumental bas-reliefs in the Mayan Revival style…
Built from six varieties of Tennessee marble, this 1934 federal courthouse and post office is the finest example of Art Deco Moderne government architecture…
Originally “Shushan Airport,” this jewel of 1930s Art Deco opened in February 1934 on a man-made peninsula dredged into Lake Pontchartrain—its restored…
A restrained federal landmark where Art Deco ornament meets Renaissance Revival gravity: white Indiana limestone, bronze spandrel panels with vine motifs…