Late Moderne architecture
Late Moderne is a phase of Moderne architecture as defined by the National Register of Historic Places.
Style
The Late Moderne style incorporates elements of both the Streamline Moderne and International styles.The first examples could be seen in the late 1930s, however, late Moderne reached its zenith in large-scale government and commercial buildings during the late 1950s and the 1960s. The style can be detected by several trademark features, such as the bezeled window, where a protruding flange resembling a bezel incorporates and outlines groups of windows. Often the material and color contrasts against the wall the surrounds the window element. An example of the Late Moderne style in Palm Springs is the [1] Character-defining features include:[1]
- Horizontal bands of bezeled windows, sometimes with aluminum louvers
- Flat roofs
- Operable steel sash windows (casement, awning, or hopper)
- Exposed concrete or cement plaster veneer
- Projecting window frames
- Horizontal emphasis
Examples
Examples of Late Moderne include:
- Dollard Building, 687 N. Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Spring, California, John Porter Clark and Albert Frey, architects (1947)[1]
- Bullock's Pasadena, Pasadena, California, 1945 (opened 1947)[2]
- Southwestern Bell Capitol Main Office Late Moderne office expansion building at 1114 Texas Avenue, Houston, Texas (1950)[3]
- Superior Oil Company Building, 555 S. Flower St., Los Angeles, California (1955)[4]
- Lunch counter and interior of Werner's Restaurant, Vickers Building, Baltimore, Maryland (1951)[5]
- Stuart Company Plant and Office Building, 3360 Foothill Blvd., Pasadena, California (1958)[6]
- Colonial Theater, Belfast Historic District, Belfast, Maine[7]
- Alexanders, Hollywood Boulevard Historic District, Los Angeles, California (Alexanders (6624 Hollywood Blvd.): (original, Late moderne remodel of earlier 1917 commercial utilitarian structure.)[8]
- 95 N. Arroyo Pkwy., Old Pasadena, Pasadena, California (1925/1947)[9]
- Department of City Planning (USO Hospitality House), San Francisco, California (1941)[10]
- Vaughan Building (Western Building), Midland, Texas[11]
- 2019 Grace Avenue, Whitley Historic District, Hollywood, Los Angeles[12]
- Barber Lydiard Building, Great Falls, Montana Historic District[13]
References
- ^ a b c https://www.palmspringsca.gov/home/showdocument?id=63930
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