This little beauty is in the San Francsico Maritime National Historical Park.
The bands of wave motifs are perfect for a setting on the bay. The maritime theme is continued with the small porthole window and the railed viewing deck on the roof.
The door is set back into the circular wall with a small porch. It could be a front door to a country cottage complete with flowering garden.
Notice the series of horizontal lines on each side of the facade near the roofline. Aptly displaying the rule of three common to so many art deco features, they shorten as they get closer to the ground.
Lettering in the dark brown surround to the entrance bears the name and year.
These days the Creswick Fire Brigade, which has been serving their community since 1854, has a new fire station which opened in 2005 but it is good to see the old building has found a new use as The Haymarket, a gas retailer.
Update: Thanks to drewsel from the wonderful Bernice Bobs Her Hair blog, who has let me know that the Creswick Fire Station is now being used as a Post Office.
It is constructed from pick marble and brick while the tower on top features blue, yellow and green terracotta tiles.
Ellington also designed a matching County Building but was not given the commission to complete the project. In a way it is a shame but maybe two such buildings would be too much ... nah ... I didn't think anyone would buy that one.
Over the years the Social Centre has hosted concerts, balls and all manner of functions. It has a beautiful parquetry floor just made for dancing. 
An oustanding feature of the Social Centre is the murals on either side of the stage above the food service area.
For Art Deco fans the second mural is a beauty.
Of course I like the Albert Park Hotel because it has a somewhat stark modernist exterior.
Like so many pubs in the area it was established in the 1880s and recieved a make-over in the 1930s.
And now in the 21st Century they also have a very slick website.
The brick of the balcony and it's roof contrast nicely with the cream render on the supporting columns. The end is also rendered and bears the name of the pub.
Above the doorway, the roofline steps up and this part of the brickwork is decorated with several vertical lines of darker bricks. Elsewhere, the decoration consists of horizontal lines of darker coloured bricks.
At the side street, to the left in the above photo, the building curves around the corner adding another deco feature to this elegant building.
Today saw the inaugural Melbourne Open House. Based on the successful annual event in London, the Melbounre Open House featured 8 buildings within easy access of Fed square.
Finally, I headed over to the Capitol Theatre, now owned by the RMIT University. Walter Burley & Marion Mahoney Griffin's 'crystal cavern' dating from 1921-24. In the foyer and canterlevered canopy over the street, it is a triumph of the square but inside the main auditorium it is a mass of geometric triangles and spikes. Originally light by thousands of coloured lights it is rare to see it lit up these days. It wasn't lit today but it is still a very impressive space.
In March 2003, London Time Out magazine produced an Art Deco issue to coincide with the Art Deco 1910-1939 Exhibition at the V & A.
The feature was a small booklet feature the Deco 100 which described Neville House as 'admittedly undistinguished 1930s apartment block'. In fact the only reason that Neville House was mentioned was because of the Paviours Arms, a deco pub on the ground floor.
Back in 2003, the owners of the building had planning permission to redevelop (demolish) the site to provide 93 modern flats and 2 shop.
By all accounts the pub was a deco gem but it wasn't open when I visited.
And Neville House? I can't actually remember the building but it did have this series of reliefs on the facade.
I presume Neville House, the Paviours Arms and the reiefs have all gone now. I wonder did the built something good to replace them.
It is hard to tell in the photo but there is a chequer-board effect in the brick work on the wings.
The flagpole and the stepped parapet partially hiding the pitched roof round off the deco features.
The interior is very functional and efficient.
The exterior is all decoration.
The block is symetrical with curved ends hiding the entrances from general view. They are marked with two inset speedlines and, nowadays, modern signage.
The entire block is grounded with several rows of darker bricks. This is echoed with a single row of dark bricks along the top of the wall, projecting into the raised central section.
An excellent example of how a careful use of brick can have a striking effect.
I wonder if the gentlemen of Maryborough realise they are visiting an Art Deco gem when the take a break during quarter time at the footy.
They date from 1941 by architect J. Bylsma.
The building is three storeys tall with a row of garages on the ground level. It is curved at each end with open balconies.
My favourite feature is the low walls either side of the steps leading up beside the building.
Local businessman, Mr. A H Beaumont had it built next to his amusement park, The Casino. The Casino has now been demolished but the Monico still remains.
The hotel is located on a major street corner near the seafront to the Thames Estuary. The main structure is semi-circular with small towers at each end.
www.canveyisland.org.uk has many clippings and photo relating to both the Monico and the Casino courtesy of the Swann Family who worked at both establishments.
In 1903 the Victoria Golf Club was established on the Bend and it appears that when they relocated to Cheltenham in the mid 1920s, part of the course was taken over by the now defunct Sandridge Golf Club and part was set aside for industrial development.
It wasn't until the mid-1930s that General Motors Holden (GMH) acquired a parcel of land to build their car manufacturing plant. There is a picture in the Victoria Golf Club history by Don Lawrence of GMH Managing Director, Sir Lawrence Hartnett visiting the site early during the establishment of the plant. The interesting point being that Hartnett's chauffeur is in the background holding a few golf clubs.
The factory opened in 1936 and originally had a revolving spotlight on the top of the tower, however it was removed within a few years due to the outbreak of WWII.
GMH no longer manufacture cars here so a lot of the site has been re-developed into Portside Industrial Park.
The original administration block remains in Salmon St, one of Melbourne's great art deco buildings.
This is the Newmarket Hotel. "Kynetons Premier Nite-Spot" or so the banner on the front reads.
Off to the right there is an extension in deco style but the underlying structure of the main part of the hotel looks older to me.
According to the Australian Heritage website, there was a Newmarket Hotel in Kyneton in 1870. The site relates the story of the bushranger Ned Kelly having appeared in the local Court House on charges of robbery under arms was held at the Newmarket Hotel at police expense for three weeks after the charges were withdrawn while money was found to pay for his return home to Greta.
If this is the same Newmarket Hotel where Ned stayed in 1870 then it must have had a makeover 50 or 60 years later to create the magnificent Newmarket Hotel in this picture.
Seaforth Court was one of his nominations and I think he did very well. It is quite majestic the way it curves around the street.
It is fair to say that the building is little more that a rectangular box but the steps leading up from the driveway have a certain style to them.
Of course the standout to me is the stylised lettering spelling out Laboratorio Chimico.
Today, I am showing you a similar house in Kaikoura on the South Island. I suspect these types of houses are dotted throughout New Zealand. I love their simple elegance and bright colours.
This one is blue with square stepped-backed sections and very simple right-angle geometric decoration at the roofline on each corner. You will notice also the shallow eyebrow above the windows running around the house, linkng up with the rounded porch.
The art deco Grade II listed terminal building was designed by local Brighton architect Stravers H Tiltman and officially opened on 13th June 1936 by the mayors of the three municipalities.
Today it is the Shoreham (Brighton City) Airport and well worth a visit for any deco fan. 
Inside there terminal, many of the original deco features survive. I seem to remember an episode of Poirot where the suspect ends up on the roof of the airport and falls throught a nice deco skylight window! Sorry to spoil the ending.
The bar/restaurant offers a great view of the runway and has an airside observation area.
I've read that you can fly to France from Shoreham. I wonder if they have any DC-3s in the fleet? Now that would be something special.
I also like the use of brick columns between the windows as a contrast to the white stone used on the rest of the facade.
This website has a great picture of the building from the 1930s and this website reveals a bit more about the building's former life, especially that it was once Nobletts Sweet Shop.
In the recent years the ground floor shop has been a Newsagency and I presume the upper levels have been used as offices.
But I keep getting drawn back to the tower. I wonder how big it is inside and what sort of a view of Dublin it offers.
MELBOURNE ART DECO
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