1931 – 20 Exchange Place, New York
A 59 floor Art Deco building in New York built between 1930-1931, for the newly merged National City Bank of New York and the Farmers’
A 59 floor Art Deco building in New York built between 1930-1931, for the newly merged National City Bank of New York and the Farmers’
Upon completion in 1931, the building was described by the Montreal Gazette as “graceful and dignified,
Attractive exercise in a restained twentieth century classical style built as a branch of the Munster and Leinster Bank. The giant orders suggest confidence with the attractive fenestration and window guards enhancing its architectural quality.
This Art Deco building is actually a 1930-31 reconstruction of an earlier Curb Exchange Building,
Exterior view of the Government Offices and grounds in Edmonton, Alberta. The Administration Building was Edmonton’s most significant Beaux-Arts structure since the Legislature had been constructed more than 20 years earlier and,
Originally designed to be taller, but the Great Depression ended those plans, the Canada Life building is a fine structure in a stripped down classicism.
At the time of its completion the Canadian Bank of Commerce Building, 25 King Street West,
During the late 1920s, Imperial Oil was massively expanding its operations through British Columbia, with Townley &
According to Shane O’Toole, in a piece for The Sunday Times “Byrne (1883-1967), a protégé and friend of Frank Lloyd Wright,
Designed by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, the Empire State Building was finished in 1931.