Art Deco Where You Live.

[bbeliko]

[photolitherland]

^^^
Where is that?

[bbeliko]

Mexico Shitty, the Condesa neighborhood

[LMich]

Well, since no from there has shown in interest in doing it, here are a few of Detroit's many art decos:

Fox Theater


DecoJim


DecoJim

Guardian Building


Andrew Larimer


Nofunk

David Stott Building


DecoJim

Fisher Building


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Penobscot Building (right)


spaceinvader32

Hopefully, the Detroiter's will post more and better.

[Evergrey]

here in Pittsburgh the two most notable examples are Gulf and Koppers.. .the two illuminated towers here (from left)

[flar]

Hamilton has a few examples of Art Moderne, which is a later evolution of Art Deco

GO Centre (train station), 1933


Port Authority, 1953


Hamilton Hydro, 1940s or 50s

[hammersklavier]

Philly has quite a few great examples of Art Deco. I would love to get pics to you guys, but here's a few that I can name:

1 Penn Center (aka Suburban Station Building), once Pennsy HQ. Right across the street from Comcast.

30th St. Station (interesting mix between Art Deco and Beaux-Arts)

Central Post Office (30th St., across from station; being renovated in IRS regional HQ)

Architect's Building

The Aria Condos (forget what the building was originally called)

PSFS Building (if we're including the Int'l Style)

Market St. Ntl. Bank

Fmr. Strawbridge & Clothier

2 South Broad (PNB Bank Bldg.)

Wachovia Building

and so on...

[DecoJim]

Ah... another Art Deco topic!

All great stuff; the Marine Building in Vancouver has some of the best details.

Since Detroit's big building boom was in the 1920s, there are a considerable number of Art Deco structures in addition to the skyscrapers (partially covered above by LMICH):

Kean Apartments on East Jefferson:

I took this photo: DecoJIm
Detail of Kean Apartments showing eagle gargoyles:

I took this photo: DecoJim

Former typesetting plant on East Jefferson:

I took this photo: DecoJim

Here is an extremely rare Art Deco lighthouse.
The William Livingstone lighthouse on Belle Isle (island in the Detroit River):

I took this photo: DecoJim

The exterior of the 40 story Guardian Building (see interior shots posted by LMICH above):

An HDR photo by: postpurchase using a wide-angle lens.

And since this is Detroit, some abandoned Art Deco buildings:

Vanity Ballroom on East Jefferson:

I took this photo: DecoJIm

Detail of Vanity Ballroom:

I took this photo: DecoJim

Yellow Pages Building (northwest of downtown):

I took this photo: DecoJim

Lee Plaza on West Grand blvd. Ten years ago this luxury residence hotel was intact. A couple of years ago thieves stole the copper cladding from the roof; stone lion sculptures from the front entrance were stolen as well and ended up as part of a Chicago condo.

I took this photo: DecoJim


West of my location, in the suburb of Livonia is this example of (Neo) Art Deco:

I took this photo: DecoJim

[brickell]

I always forget that Art Deco comes in colors other than white and pastels.






src for both: http://crabbycrewblog.blogspot.com/2...g_archive.html

[urbanactivistTX]

For Houston... these two are from the art deco era, though technically they're different styles...

The Neils Esperson Building (1927)


from Tom Haymes on flickr

St. Paul's UMC Houston TX (1930)


mlnsp on flickr


mlnsp on flickr

[stormkingfan]

In response to LMich's pics from Detroit:

I love Detroit!

[stormkingfan]

Originally Posted by Jeeper

Sorry guys but I'm not really good at differentiating between architectural styles, so I put forth the question, are these art deco style?

Fisk Building





Santa Fe Building

Fisk Bldg. leans more towards Collegiate Gothic, but looks like it has a hint of Art Deco.

Santa Fe Bldg. is what I'd call "conservative Art Deco". There's some Gothic overtones, too.

National City Bank Bldg. (1932) in Toledo is definitely Art Deco.

ps..... jeeper, I didn't include all your pics, because I didn't want to take up too much space.

[JMancuso]

the neils esperson building really isn't art deco but the meilie esperson building next door is.

[Lear]

Art Deco inspired mall in Berlin - Mitte, Alexanderplatz finished in 2007.






claude05's photostream at flickr


courtesy baunetz

[hauntedheadnc]

The only city in the Southeast with more art deco than Asheville is Miami Beach.

Some examples:

(all pics by me)

























Even our cemeteries get into the act:

[photolitherland]

HauntedHead those are very awesome. You dont often see Art Deco buildings incorporated into main streets like a few of those 2 story buildings are. In fact, I dont believe I have ever seen that before. Your town is lucky do have all of those beautiful gems.

[hauntedheadnc]

Originally Posted by photolitherland

HauntedHead those are very awesome. You dont often see Art Deco buildings incorporated into main streets like a few of those 2 story buildings are. In fact, I dont believe I have ever seen that before. Your town is lucky do have all of those beautiful gems.

We're kind of famous for our architecture. It's one of the things the tourists come to see.

The reason we have so many great buildings is because, for one, we were one of the nation's foremost resorts from the 1880's up until the Great Depression hit. After the Depression hit, we incurred the highest per capita debt in the country and were too poor for the next fifty years to tear anything down, so most of what got built during the boom survived.

At the height of the art deco boom, we got extremely lucky by attracting architect Douglas Ellington. A native North Carolinian, he was educated at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and then hung up his shingle in Asheville upon returning to the US. He was responsible for the S&W Cafeteria and Asheville City Hall, both pictured here already, as well as a host of houses and two other noteworthy art deco structures that are still standing:

First Baptist Church of Asheville (this church's design is based on that of the cathedral in Florence)



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Asheville High School



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[marcus]

Baltimore has some!


http://flickr.com/photos/cprimm_manly427/2935067105/


http://flickr.com/photos/cprimm_manl...n/photostream/


http://flickr.com/photos/cprimm_manly427/2935061091/


http://flickr.com/photos/avi8tor4fn/2290204581/


http://flickr.com/photos/zizzy/29855019/sizes/l/


http://flickr.com/photos/cprimm_manly427/2993283363/


http://flickr.com/photos/24107595@N04/2344024655/

etc

[Kingofthehill]

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[WilliamTheArtist]

Alright now. Half or more of those in the last huge reply were not art-deco. Many were from around the 20s and 30s, but that does not make them deco. True there are always examples of "fuzzy lines" where some deco elements or sensibilities were added to or mixed in with older styles and could be called deco... but there were a lot there that could in no way be stretched to be called art-deco.