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decoarchitecture: St. Paul City Hall & Ramsey County Courthouse, St. Paul, Minnesotafrom Library of Congress Three views of the city hall / courthouse. More pics coming up, including some lobby pics that blow my mind. From LoC: St. Paul City Hall & Ramsey County Courthouse, 15 West Kellogg Boulevard, Saint Paul, Ramsey County, MN The Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse is a stunning example of innovative public architecture from the American Depression Era. Commissioned in 1930, and completed in 1931 by Holabird and Root of Chicago and Ellerbe and Company of Saint Paul, the City Hall design uses two Art Deco styles known as “American Perpendicular” and “Zigzag Moderne.” The use of Art Deco styles and incorporation of technologically advanced functional features in the new City Hall building make it a distinctively “modern” structure in the context of 1930’s architecture. Art works which symbolically depict the progressive ideals of a modern industrial society add to the futuristic image of the architecture. Because it was constructed of the highest quality materials and is an excellent representative of a past style in the contemporary built environment, the City Hall is still considered an architectural masterpiece and a landmark in the city of Saint Paul. decoarchitecture: St. Paul City Hall & Ramsey County Courthouse, St. Paul, Minnesotafrom Library of Congress Three views of the city hall / courthouse. More pics coming up, including some lobby pics that blow my mind. From LoC: St. Paul City Hall & Ramsey County Courthouse, 15 West Kellogg Boulevard, Saint Paul, Ramsey County, MN The Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse is a stunning example of innovative public architecture from the American Depression Era. Commissioned in 1930, and completed in 1931 by Holabird and Root of Chicago and Ellerbe and Company of Saint Paul, the City Hall design uses two Art Deco styles known as “American Perpendicular” and “Zigzag Moderne.” The use of Art Deco styles and incorporation of technologically advanced functional features in the new City Hall building make it a distinctively “modern” structure in the context of 1930’s architecture. Art works which symbolically depict the progressive ideals of a modern industrial society add to the futuristic image of the architecture. Because it was constructed of the highest quality materials and is an excellent representative of a past style in the contemporary built environment, the City Hall is still considered an architectural masterpiece and a landmark in the city of Saint Paul. decoarchitecture: St. Paul City Hall & Ramsey County Courthouse, St. Paul, Minnesotafrom Library of Congress Three views of the city hall / courthouse. More pics coming up, including some lobby pics that blow my mind. From LoC: St. Paul City Hall & Ramsey County Courthouse, 15 West Kellogg Boulevard, Saint Paul, Ramsey County, MN The Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse is a stunning example of innovative public architecture from the American Depression Era. Commissioned in 1930, and completed in 1931 by Holabird and Root of Chicago and Ellerbe and Company of Saint Paul, the City Hall design uses two Art Deco styles known as “American Perpendicular” and “Zigzag Moderne.” The use of Art Deco styles and incorporation of technologically advanced functional features in the new City Hall building make it a distinctively “modern” structure in the context of 1930’s architecture. Art works which symbolically depict the progressive ideals of a modern industrial society add to the futuristic image of the architecture. Because it was constructed of the highest quality materials and is an excellent representative of a past style in the contemporary built environment, the City Hall is still considered an architectural masterpiece and a landmark in the city of Saint Paul.

decoarchitecture:

St. Paul City Hall & Ramsey County Courthouse, St. Paul, Minnesota
from Library of Congress

Three views of the city hall / courthouse. More pics coming up, including some lobby pics that blow my mind.

From LoC:

St. Paul City Hall & Ramsey County Courthouse, 15 West Kellogg Boulevard, Saint Paul, Ramsey County, MN

The Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse is a stunning example of innovative public architecture from the American Depression Era.

Commissioned in 1930, and completed in 1931 by Holabird and Root of Chicago and Ellerbe and Company of Saint Paul, the City Hall design uses two Art Deco styles known as “American Perpendicular” and “Zigzag Moderne.”

The use of Art Deco styles and incorporation of technologically advanced functional features in the new City Hall building make it a distinctively “modern” structure in the context of 1930’s architecture. Art works which symbolically depict the progressive ideals of a modern industrial society add to the futuristic image of the architecture.

Because it was constructed of the highest quality materials and is an excellent representative of a past style in the contemporary built environment, the City Hall is still considered an architectural masterpiece and a landmark in the city of Saint Paul.

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Aircraft Wednesday! Today’s aircraft is the B-52 Stratofortress. The B-52 is the United States’ main heavy bomber, and has been used since the late 1950’s. It saw heavy action in the Vietnam Conflict and use all the way through the latest Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. It can hold a variety, and a lot of, weapons including guided Air-ground missiles, Nuclear missiles and Physics packages, a variety of guided and unguided bombs. My father, who was a flight engineer for a sensor drop squadron, said the it looked like you were flying over another world when the went over parts that were hit by the B-52s. Enjoy Aircraft Wednesday! Photo Courtesy of FAS.org! View Larger

Aircraft Wednesday! Today’s aircraft is the B-52 Stratofortress. The B-52 is the United States’ main heavy bomber, and has been used since the late 1950’s. It saw heavy action in the Vietnam Conflict and use all the way through the latest Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. It can hold a variety, and a lot of, weapons including guided Air-ground missiles, Nuclear missiles and Physics packages, a variety of guided and unguided bombs. My father, who was a flight engineer for a sensor drop squadron, said the it looked like you were flying over another world when the went over parts that were hit by the B-52s. Enjoy Aircraft Wednesday! Photo Courtesy of FAS.org!

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Well then. Here we go. I guess. It’s me! Where you ask? Up there stupid!. Hmmmmm…. Now that I’ve alienated most of my readership(I don’t actually have any at this point), I guess I should explain the picture. That was me holding an American flag, in a bowling alley, in Fritzlar, Hessen, Germany. So yeah! A First Look! More to come! View Larger

Well then. Here we go. I guess. It’s me! Where you ask? Up there stupid!. Hmmmmm…. Now that I’ve alienated most of my readership(I don’t actually have any at this point), I guess I should explain the picture. That was me holding an American flag, in a bowling alley, in Fritzlar, Hessen, Germany. So yeah! A First Look! More to come!

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