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Persons asserting that Streamline Moderne is just another term, or the preferred term, for Moderne are not completely without sources seeming to equate them. For example http://circaoldhouses.com/art-deco-art-moderne/ equates Art Moderne with Streamline Moderne, and just differentiates them vs. Art Deco (without discussing PWA Moderne or Stripped classicism or other terms not related to Streamline). Please note that source include 'rounded edges', 'curved canopies', ' Occasional circular porthole, oculus, round windows on main or secondary elevations' and 'References to the sea/the ocean: curves, horizontal vectors and lines, and light blue finishes like aquamarine, azure, baby blue, cyan, teal, and turquoise' as identifying features.
However, two huge points to be recognized are:
PWA Moderne is very clearly different, and does not involve curves and streamlining.
that there are many buildings identified as Moderne in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places, a good number identified as PWA Moderne, and relatively few specifically identified as Streamline Moderne. All of those identified as Moderne (hundreds I think) and probably many PWA Moderne ones have been swept (incorrectly) into Streamline categories.
Another online source is http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/architecture/styles/moderne.html, which briefly states Moderne replaced Art Deco in the 1930s. What it describes is compatible with streamline moderne, including saying it is easily seen by its "curvilinear" forms, but it is calling it Moderne. The five example photos don't all show curves, though.
Also I added another article, the 1919-1920-built, mid-1940s facade-modified Lyceum Theater (Clovis, New Mexico), to the category. I suppose an architectural historian might possibly argue (but not in any sources I know) that this building is Art Deco not "Moderne" of the curvilinear type. But it is labelled as "Modern Movement: Moderne" in its NRHP nomination, categorized as "Moderne" in NRIS, and its text describes it or some of its details multiple times as "Modernistic" or "modernistic" without using "Moderne" in the text. IMHO it would surely be wrong to impose "Streamline Moderne" upon this building. "Moderne" is used here and in other NRHP documentation as a general style; what we need to do in Wikipedia is describe properly the common usage of the term (which is not merely the Streamline/curvilinear subtype). --doncram20:43, 21 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Modern architecture is a well-developed article, which defines PWA Moderne, but not Moderne? Is Moderne in practice a shortcut for PWA Moderne? But what about buildings not associated with the PWA or other New Deal public works programs. The post offices. The movie theatres. --doncram21:06, 21 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
