Fox Theater (1930), Bakersfield, California
Downtown Bakersfield’s most commanding facade belongs to the 1930 Fox Theater—a full-width Art Deco composition in terra cotta and neon whose three-story…
Downtown Bakersfield’s most commanding facade belongs to the 1930 Fox Theater—a full-width Art Deco composition in terra cotta and neon whose three-story…
Rapp & Rapp gave Erie one of their most precisely resolved Art Deco interiors in 1931—the Warner Theatre’s State Street facade in buff limestone and the…
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