Art Deco Architecture

Chandelier, North Dakota State Capitol, Bismarck, North Dakota
by chaosfive55

Gorgeous 1930s light fixture.

Great Hall, North Dakota State Capitol , Bismarck, North Dakota
by chaos55

Stunning and graceful.

From the photographer:

The old Capitol burned down in 1930, and they went with a Art Deco Skyscraper look for the new building.

North Dakota State Capitol, Bismarck, North Dakota
by chaosfive55

Fabulous Deco interior.

From the photographer:

This is the main hall of the North Dakota State Capitol building in Bismarck! The old Capitol burned down in 1930, and they went with a Art Deco Skyscraper look for the new building.

North Dakota State Capitol, Bismarck, North Dakota
by danielsalas

Yay, another 1930s state capitol!

From the photographer:

North Dakota State Capitol, aka “the skyscraper on the prairie,” completed in Bismarck in 1934. There are a few of these lone art deco towers in various non-coastal cities (Baton Rouge comes to mind) and they’re awfully strange. The skyscraper made sense in space-starved Manhattan, where the form reached early perfection. New York’s depression-era skyscrapers oozed majesty and capitalistic dominance, so it’s no wonder that they became fashionable for use in such centers of backwater-power as this. But seeing the vertical force projection in such an empty place just seems absurd.

(Source: savage-america)