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D… Detroit Detroit Saturday Night Building, Detroit, MichiganPhoto by Michael G. Smith True, I’ve been making an effort to post Detroit pictures but had not seen this building before. I love the window treatments on the ground level. From Flickr: This is one of Detroit’s more significant—yet little-appreciated—Art Deco buildings. It was designed for Detroit Saturday Night by Smith, HInchman & Grylls Chief Designer, Wirt Rowland, and was completed in 1929. The building is located at 1959 E. Jefferson Avenue, just east of the Dequindre Cut. Rowland used here many of the design elements of the Penobscot Building, most notably, limestone facing, beveled roof-line, “organ pipes” or convex fluting, stepped arch, and emphasis on both vertical and horizontal. The significance of the building is due in part to its extraordinary similarity to the Art Deco structures in and around Miami Beach, constructed beginning in the mid-thirties. The similarities may, in fact, be an outgrowth of the design efforts of Wirt Rowland in Detroit. (Continue…)

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Detroit Saturday Night Building, Detroit, Michigan
Photo by Michael G. Smith

True, I’ve been making an effort to post Detroit pictures but had not seen this building before. I love the window treatments on the ground level.

From Flickr:

This is one of Detroit’s more significant—yet little-appreciated—Art Deco buildings. It was designed for Detroit Saturday Night by Smith, HInchman & Grylls Chief Designer, Wirt Rowland, and was completed in 1929. The building is located at 1959 E. Jefferson Avenue, just east of the Dequindre Cut.

Rowland used here many of the design elements of the Penobscot Building, most notably, limestone facing, beveled roof-line, “organ pipes” or convex fluting, stepped arch, and emphasis on both vertical and horizontal. The significance of the building is due in part to its extraordinary similarity to the Art Deco structures in and around Miami Beach, constructed beginning in the mid-thirties. The similarities may, in fact, be an outgrowth of the design efforts of Wirt Rowland in Detroit.

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David Stott Building, Detroit, Michigan Another look at the building — up! From Wikipedia: It has 37 stories with three additional floors below street level. The building rises from a reddish granite base and incorporates brick, marble (on the first three floors from the street), and limestone as its surface materials. As with many of the other Detroit buildings of the era it contains architectural sculpture by Corrado Parducci. The tower’s tiered summit is brightly lighted with uplights on each facade and complements the similarly lighted Westin Book Cadillac Hotel downtown. The David Stott Building neighbors 1001 Woodward to the southeast. SkyBar Detroit opened in 2011 on the 35th floor of the David Stott Tower. olddetroit: A view upwards at the David Stott Building, 1934.   After laying dormant for a short period, the building reopened in 2011 and is now home to the Skybar Lounge. 

David Stott Building, Detroit, Michigan

Another look at the building — up!

From Wikipedia:

It has 37 stories with three additional floors below street level. The building rises from a reddish granite base and incorporates brick, marble (on the first three floors from the street), and limestone as its surface materials. As with many of the other Detroit buildings of the era it contains architectural sculpture by Corrado Parducci. The tower’s tiered summit is brightly lighted with uplights on each facade and complements the similarly lighted Westin Book Cadillac Hotel downtown. The David Stott Building neighbors 1001 Woodward to the southeast. SkyBar Detroit opened in 2011 on the 35th floor of the David Stott Tower.

olddetroit:

A view upwards at the David Stott Building, 1934.  

After laying dormant for a short period, the building reopened in 2011 and is now home to the Skybar Lounge. 

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David Stott Building, Detroit, Michigan Kicking off a Detroit series… From Wikipedia: The David Stott Building is an Art Deco skyscraper in downtown Detroit, Michigan designed by the architectural firm of Donaldson and Meier. It is a class-A office building constructed in 1929 at the corner of Griswold Street and State Street (1150 Griswold St.), a part of the Capitol Park Historic District. It is named after a businessman in Detroit who owned a mill and was on the boards of multiple other companies. olddetroit: David Stott Building. Detroit, MI. 1964

David Stott Building, Detroit, Michigan

Kicking off a Detroit series…

From Wikipedia:

The David Stott Building is an Art Deco skyscraper in downtown Detroit, Michigan designed by the architectural firm of Donaldson and Meier. It is a class-A office building constructed in 1929 at the corner of Griswold Street and State Street (1150 Griswold St.), a part of the Capitol Park Historic District. It is named after a businessman in Detroit who owned a mill and was on the boards of multiple other companies.

olddetroit:

David Stott Building. Detroit, MI. 1964

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Southern Bell Telephone Company Building, Atlanta, GAby thirtyframes Another Downtown Atlanta building I’ve shared before, the old Southern Bell building, now known as 51 Peachtree Center Ave. More pictures of the building here. I wait at the bus stop next to this one every day. 

Southern Bell Telephone Company Building, Atlanta, GA
by thirtyframes

Another Downtown Atlanta building I’ve shared before, the old Southern Bell building, now known as 51 Peachtree Center Ave. More pictures of the building here. I wait at the bus stop next to this one every day. 

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Derry and Toms, London, England
via Phillip LeMarchand

Gorgeous Deco grilles. They go with this building

Derry and Toms

From Flickr:

Cast-iron grilles at 101-111 High St., Kensington. London. Originally Derry and Toms department store. Built 1929-31. Work by conceived by Walter Gilbert and modelled by Donald Gilbert. All of this work is still extant: 38 grilles of varying sizes. The principal elements in the scheme are nine figurative grilles in art deco style on the High Street frontage. Each of these elements is a human or fantastic creature, and the scheme is clearly mythological. One of the figures is holding a star, so they could be related to constellar myths. The grilles are about 12 feet wide by 6 feet high. Work executed by H. H. Martyn of Cheltenham. General view of the store frontage showing two of the grilles. A contemporaneous photo commissioned by Walter Gilbert. File created from a print in the possession of Phillip Medhurst.

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Southern Bell Telephone Company Building, Atlanta, GAby Wendy Darling Finally, here’s a wide shot. I hate that tower thing :( It was added in the 60s. And hey, look, here’s a pic of the building when it was half built-out and not yet a cube. Only 6 stories were built due to the Depression, then it was built out in twice in the 40s and then again the 50s. Previously posted pics of this building here.

Southern Bell Telephone Company Building, Atlanta, GA
by Wendy Darling

Finally, here’s a wide shot. I hate that tower thing :( It was added in the 60s.

And hey, look, here’s a pic of the building when it was half built-out and not yet a cube.

Only 6 stories were built due to the Depression, then it was built out in twice in the 40s and then again the 50s.

Previously posted pics of this building here.

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Exterior Detail, Southern Bell Telephone Company Building, Atlanta, GAby Wendy Darling The female figure. Again, I shot this from across the street with a digital zoom, thus the not great quality. From Waymarking: The Frieze surrounding the front door is intricately carved with representations of animals and people, and simple geometric patterns. There are also a King and Queen flanking the main entrance. Harris, Julian Hoke, 1906-1987, sculptor Previously posted pics of this building here.

Exterior Detail, Southern Bell Telephone Company Building, Atlanta, GA
by Wendy Darling

The female figure.

Again, I shot this from across the street with a digital zoom, thus the not great quality.

From Waymarking:

The Frieze surrounding the front door is intricately carved with representations of animals and people, and simple geometric patterns. There are also a King and Queen flanking the main entrance.

Harris, Julian Hoke, 1906-1987, sculptor

Previously posted pics of this building here.

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