Orpheum Theatre (1928), Memphis
One of the grandest surviving movie palaces in the American South, the Memphis Orpheum opened in 1928 with an interior of crystal chandeliers, gilded…
One of the grandest surviving movie palaces in the American South, the Memphis Orpheum opened in 1928 with an interior of crystal chandeliers, gilded…
Designed by the firm of McKim, Mead & White and completed in 1935, Newark Penn Station is one of the finest examples of Art Deco public architecture in the…
One of the South’s great atmospheric movie palaces, the Alabama Theatre opened in 1927 with a Moorish-inflected Art Deco interior that transported Birmingham…
Denver’s finest surviving Art Deco theater, the Paramount opened in 1930 with a 2,000-seat auditorium and a facade that announced the city’s ambitions in the…
A monument to civic ambition built in the depths of the Depression, the Kansas City Municipal Auditorium brought Art Deco grandeur to the public institutions…
Seattle’s premier Art Deco office tower when it opened in 1930, the Exchange Building brought the idiom of the New York and Chicago skyscraper to the Pacific…
For decades the tallest building in Tennessee, the Sterick Building rose 29 stories above downtown Memphis in 1930 — its Art Deco shaft and Gothic-inflected…
Built in 1930 for a prominent Atlanta banker, the William Oliver Building brought the Art Deco skyscraper to Peachtree Street at a scale that announced…
At the corner of 57th Street and Madison Avenue, the Fuller Building stands apart from its midtown neighbors through a striking black-and-white facade and an…
A 41-story Art Deco tower by the Burnham Brothers on West Adams Street, built in 1927 when Chicago’s Loop was still defining the American skyscraper — one of…