In 1938 Melbourne architects J F Ballantyne & Roy Wilson remodelled the Hotel Terminus in Shepparton. They added a second storey and extended the ground floor of the original 1880s building giving the old hotel a slick Moderne look.
At its peak, the Tulsa Union Depot serviced as many as 36 trains daily but the days of train as a major form of transport was numbered and this fine building ceased operation in 1967. A useful life of just 36 years.
Empty and falling apart, it was rescued and restored in the 1980s and was used as office space demonstrating that older buildings can be adapted and reused.
Since 2007 it has been the home of the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame.
A small corner shop in rural Australia, Denilquin, New South Wales to be precise. A simple building as you would expect currently occupied by Barlow & Weller's Pharmacy. But the roofline has that extra Art Deco something. Horizontal bars curving around the corner and two rounded pylons marking the entrance. Nice.
This is the Acland Street frontage of the Acland Court Pharmacy. It is a 1938 former G J Coles & Co store designed by architect Harry A Norris.
It is part of the St Kilda Market Complex which is cited in the City of Port Phillip Heritage Review as a Significant heritage building.
The doorways are interesting because they have an Art Deco pattern in the terrazzo entrances. Unfortunately they are not looking there best and, in fact, it is rare to see them because they are usually covered by large mats. It would be lovely to see them cleaned up and put on show a bit more often.
The interior of the Gare Centrale in Montreal features an amazing array of murals by Charles Comfort depicting all aspects of Canadian life like this lumberjack.
Recently I wrote about the former Warragul branch of the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney (CBC) at 5 Smith Street and while scouring the internet for information on the building I came across the CBC Officers Club Inc website that included a letter from Malcolm Dickson with the following paragraph.
My father rented a shop at 5 Smith Street from 1930 to June 1939 when we had to vacate the shop for the CBC Bank.
We moved to 30 Smith Street where the business is still operated by my son and two Grandsons.
And that, I'm afraid, is a long-winded way of getting to Dicksons Mensland at 30 Smith Street, Warragul.
MELBOURNE ART DECO
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