Hollywood Pantages Theatre (1930), Hollywood
Opened in 1930 on Hollywood Boulevard, the Pantages Theatre hosted the Academy Awards for a decade and remains one of the most spectacular surviving examples…
Opened in 1930 on Hollywood Boulevard, the Pantages Theatre hosted the Academy Awards for a decade and remains one of the most spectacular surviving examples…
Built by oil magnate Waite Phillips at the height of Tulsa’s oil-boom prosperity, the Philtower has anchored the Boston Avenue streetscape since 1928 — its…
At 428 feet and 37 stories, the Gulf Building was the tallest skyscraper in the American South when it opened in 1929 — a landmark of the oil boom era that…
A 26-story Art Deco tower sheathed in Mayan-inspired terracotta, where the ornamental vocabulary of a pre-Columbian civilization was translated into one of…
At 56 floors and 649 feet, the Chanin Building rose on East 42nd Street in 1929 and helped set the template for what an Art Deco corporate tower could be…
Ohio’s Art Deco crown — a 47-story tower clad in gold terracotta and limestone that loomed over Columbus for decades as the state’s tallest building…
A 32-story Art Deco obelisk built to echo the Washington Monument — and to immortalize the man who commissioned it. Wilbur Foshay’s celebrated 1929 opening…
Holabird & Root’s 37-story Art Deco tower crowns the northern end of Michigan Avenue with the Lindbergh Beacon — a powerful searchlight trained on the sky at…
The twin-towered Art Deco colossus at 301 Park Avenue was the world’s tallest hotel when it opened in 1931 — forty-seven stories of limestone and steel that…
Raymond Hood’s 33-story tower at 330 West 42nd Street breaks every rule of the New York skyscraper tradition: blue-green terracotta panels run horizontally…