With all due respect to the awesome Houston Deco site, which has been my "bible" during these numerous Deco hunts, I'm now calling these posts "Gulf Coast" rather than "Houston" Deco. As a Galveston BOI (Born on Island), I just can't give credit to Houston when most of the structures within this post are in my hometown, Galveston(!). So suck it, H-Town.
Santa Fe Building/Union Station, 1932
Alamo Elementary School, 1935
Good one of that van, huh?
Galveston Post Office, Custom House and Courthouse, 1937
Martini Theater, 1937
I saw On Any Sunday and Foul Play (among other movies) at this theater.
terrazo sidewalk detail
Windsor Court Apartments, 1937
Stephen F. Austin Junior High School, 1939
Webster High School (Webster, Texas), 1939
Galveston Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade, 1940
Sears, Roebuck & Co., 1940
Town House Arms Apartments, 1948
Pennington Buick Co., 1950
Previously:
I really like your capture of the attractive Houston "Medical Arts" building. I hope the upper floors are still being used, but sadly, they're probably not.
ReplyDeleteOne of the first skyscrapers in Arkansas - and a top favorite building of mine - is a deco beauty erected in Hot Springs...also named the "Medical Arts" building.
It's odd that the field of medicine was once considered more of an "art" rather than a "science", I think, but that shows us how times have changed.
Thanks! The sky is a bit white for my taste, but you have to deal with what you have at the moment sometimes when you've gone somewhere to take pictures (or just there with a camera).
ReplyDeleteI don't think this building is being used for anything. But, I think it is listed among the National Register of Historical Places. I'm not sure that can always prevent things from being demolished, but it can't hurt.
A lovely series. Many of these buildings resonate with me; their simple grandeur and the assured massings really appeal. Restrained, yet sophisticated.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Leigh! I've really loved hunting down these Art Deco "treasures." And to document them in my hometown was icing on the cake.
ReplyDeleteIt's such an inspiring place, sorta reminds me of a Capote story but I can't recall which one but I remember its feeling quite intensely. Such a good setting for a shocking story.
ReplyDeletethe Galveston Historical Foundation has purchased and restored the old Sears and Roebuck building on Broadway and 23rd street-- they've even got an art deco neon sign that looks like the original one-- its white now, not that horrible peachy color the salvation army picked
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