The Flickr Artdecoofficebuilding Image Generatr

Here was yet another oblique view of yet another office tower on yet another streetcorner. Now we were "showing the building in relation to its surroundings," great.

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In downtown Bloomington, Illinois, on August 10th, 2024, was the former State Farm Building (a "contributing property" in the Bloomington Central Business District, 85000363 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the northwest corner of North East Street (U.S. 51 Business Route) and East Washington Street.

Per the McClean County Museum of History, the building was designed by Lundeen, Hooten, Roozen and Schaeffer, and the first eight floors of the front portion were built 1929-1931. Per a timeline of the building's history in the Illinois State University student newspaper, four more floors were added to the front in 1934; the first eight floors of the rear portion were built in 1939-1940; and four floors were added to that addition in 1945.

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Nineteen thirty-one. Lately it's getting to where you have to specify!

The openness of the parking lot makes the building easy to see. For this one I posed my 2000 Ford F-150 Lariat in front of the building.

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In downtown Kansas City, Missouri, on March 27th, 2022, the former Bryant Building (built 1930-1931; designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White; converted to a data center starting in 2012 and renamed "1102 Grand"; 89000312 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the southwest corner of Grand Boulevard and East 11th Street.

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In downtown Columbia, South Carolina, on January 2nd, 2024, 915 Main St. (identified on page 90 of the Columbia Downtown Historic Resource Survey as the "Forsyth Building" and the South Carolina Department of General Services, erected 1950) on the west side of Main Street between Pendleton Street and College Street.

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"1929? We built it just in time!" the people of the 1930s commonly said, in reference to buildings like these. No I'm just kidding, I made that up.

"The brick sheathing is shaded so that the lower dark brown brick gradually lightens until it becomes a gray buff color on the upper floors," it says here. This is delightful to see.

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In Niagara Falls, New York, on June 9th, 2021, the Giacomo Hotel and Residences (built 1928-1929 as the United Office Building; designed by James A. Johnson of Esenwein & Johnson; 05001537 on the National Register of Historic Places) on the west side of 1st Street between Old Falls Street and Rainbow Boulevard, as viewed from the southwest corner of 1st Street and Rainbow Boulevard.

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Its fanciness of Art Deco was surely not intended to mock the suffering and desperation of the innocent victims of the Great Depression, but I guess that's what ended up happening.

Verily here was the Axis Hotel in downtown Moline, opened in 2019 in the Fifth Avenue Building, a/k/a the Fifth Avenue Block, originally an office building. The official documentation of the Moline Downtown Commercial Historic District says the building is from 1930, as does the Rock Island County GIS Public Mapping App. The hotel's website has a page about the history of the building, which says it was built in 1927, even as it shows a series of pictures of the building under construction, dated from December 1929 well into 1930, as if we wouldn't notice the discrepancy. This page prepared by members of the Moline Heritage Preservation Commission says construction didn't begin until 1931, which is contradicted by the pictures on the hotel's website.

But anyway, I have DECIDED TO BELIEVE it was completed in 1930, at least mostly.

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In downtown Moline, Illinois, on May 21st, 2023, the Axis Hotel at the southwest corner of 5th Avenue and 17th Street, a "contributing property" in the Moline Downtown Commercial Historic District, 07000856 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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The New India Assurance Building is an art deco office building made of reinforced concrete and designed by Master, Sarhe and Bhuta, with artistic designer N. G. Pansare. It was constructed in 1936 in Mumbai, India.

Supposedly it was the TALLEST SKYSCRAPER IN RALEIGH from 1930 to 1942. Okay!

The Wells Fargo skyscraper behind it has worsened the city.

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In downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, on April 4th, 2023, the Capital Club Building (built 1929-1930, designed by Frank B. Simpson, 85003076 on the National Register of Historic Places) at the northeast corner of South Salisbury Street and West Martin Street.

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Run over and kiss it, I'll stay here and watch. Watch for cars, don't get run over.

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In downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, on April 4th, 2023, the Waverly F. Akins Wake County Office Building at 336 Fayetteville St, built 1941-1942 as the Durham Life Insurance Company Building, with the top four floors added in 1947, a "contributing property" in the Fayetteville Street Historic Street, 07001412 on the National Register of Historic Places, at the northwest corner of Fayetteville Street and West Davie Street.

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This one's in Fort Worth. The building's detailing is said here to have been "influenced by the Art Deco and Spanish Renaissance Revival idioms." Okay!

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In downtown Fort Worth, Texas, on February 12th, 2023, the Electric Building (built from 1927 to 1929, designed by Wyatt C. Hedrick, 95000048 on the National Register of Historic Places, converted to apartments in 1996) at the northeast corner of West 7th Street and Lamar Street.

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In downtown Mount Clemens, Michigan, on July 31st, 2021, the Price Building (built in 1929-1930 for the offices and production plant of the Daily Leader newspaper, known from 1942 to 1964 as the Monitor-Leader Building, and from 1964 to 1994 as the Macomb Daily Building) at the southwest corner of Cass Avenue and South Walnut Street.

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Architect - George Heath MacDonald
Construction was completed in 1958. The Alberta government purchased the building in 1983 for $20.5 million from the federal government to house provincial government offices The building stood empty for 27 years before a five-year renovation that was completed in 2015. That renovation included the "Sky Palace", a personal residence to be used by the Premier. It came to symbolize what was seen as the former Alberta government's sense of entitlement (ruling the province for 40 continuous years), that detail was lost on our current Premier who used the space for a booze-up dinner party during the Covid 19 Lockdown - that event was photographed from a residential balcony using a long lens making the nightly news.
The Federal Building is one of Alberta’s few art deco office buildings.
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Architect - George Heath MacDonald
Construction was completed in 1958. The Alberta government purchased the building in 1983 for $20.5 million from the federal government to house provincial government offices The building stood empty for 27 years before a five-year renovation that was completed in 2015. That renovation included the "Sky Palace", a personal residence to be used by the Premier. It came to symbolize what was seen as the former Alberta government's sense of entitlement (ruling the province for 40 continuous years), that detail was lost on our current Premier who used the space for a booze-up dinner party during the Covid 19 Lockdown - that event was photographed from a residential balcony using a long lens making the nightly news.
The Federal Building is one of Alberta’s few art deco office buildings.

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I composed my picture to honor the building's brick side, which I personally prefer to the Indiana limestone on the front, because I dislike the state of Indiana.

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In downtown Rochester, New York, on June 10th, 2021, the Reynolds Arcade building on the north side of East Main Street, west of State Street, erected 1932, designed by Gordon & Kaelber, 85002855 on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Another instance of "Got built just in time didn't it!, right before the crash!"

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In downtown Buffalo, New York, on June 6th, 2021, the Rand Building (erected 1929) at the northwest corner of Washington Street and Lafayette Square, as viewed from the intersection of Ellicott Street (New York State Route 5), Broadway, and William Street.

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Now it was 1930 and the Art Deco movement was expressing itself as an office tower in downtown Cleveland.

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In downtown Cleveland, Ohio, on May 9th, 2020, a portion of the Landmark Office Towers complex (built from 1928 to 1930, designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, part of the Tower City Center complex) at the northeast corner of West 2nd Street and West Huron Road.

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I hope that it shall stand long enough to celebrate its 500th anniversary in 2430. And beyond.

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In downtown Flint, Michigan, on December 9th, 2018, the Mott Foundation Building, formerly the Union Industrial Bank Building, designed by Smith, Hinchman & Grylls, said to have been built from 1929 to 1930, as viewed from the southwest corner of East 2nd Street and Harrison Street.

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entrance way window at the redone (2007) SEPTA Regional Rail Suburban Station

Suburban Station is an art deco office building and underground commuter rail station in Penn Center, Philadelphia.
Opened: September 28, 1930
Architectural style: Art Deco
Rebuilt: January 9, 2007

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