San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, Western Span (1936), San Francisco, California
When it opened in November 1936 — six months before the Golden Gate — the Bay Bridge was one of the longest bridges in the world, its Art Deco towers framing…
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Bayonne Bridge (1931), Bayonne, New Jersey
Designed by engineer Othmar Ammann and architect Cass Gilbert — the same partnership that delivered the George Washington Bridge the same year — the Bayonne…
UT Tower — Main Building (1937), University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
A pale limestone campanile rising over the Forty Acres, the UT Tower has served as the skyline signature of Austin and the institutional symbol of Texas’s…
Paramount Theatre (1930), 1621 Glenarm Place, Denver, Colorado
Denver’s finest surviving Art Deco movie palace, the Paramount opened in 1930 as the flagship of a national cinema chain and still serves as one of the…
Daytona Beach Bandshell (1937), Oceanfront Park, Daytona Beach, Florida
A curved concrete amphitheater built by New Deal workers on the Atlantic beachfront, the Daytona Beach Bandshell has provided free public entertainment for…
Russ Building (1927), 235 Montgomery Street, Financial District, San Francisco, California
San Francisco’s tallest skyscraper for nearly four decades, a soaring shaft of Gothic-inflected Art Deco that dominated the Financial District skyline from…
Villa Riviera (1929), 800 East Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach, California
A Gothic-crowned residential tower rising directly from the Long Beach shoreline, the Villa Riviera was the most ambitious apartment building on the Southern…
Griffith Observatory (1935), Griffith Park, Los Angeles, California
James Dean stood on this terrace before the knife fight in Rebel Without a Cause, and a million Los Angeles evenings have ended watching the city lights…
Los Angeles City Hall (1928), 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles, California
For nearly four decades, the 454-foot tower of Los Angeles City Hall was not just the tallest building in the city but the only skyscraper the law permitted…
450 Sutter Street (1929), Medical-Dental Building, Union Square, San Francisco, California
On the eve of the Great Depression, Timothy Pflueger covered 26 stories of a San Francisco office tower in Mayan temple ornament — geometric glyphs and…