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Show 603 - 607 1st Avenue - 1936-7 Architect/Builder: Building Materials: concrete (?)____Building Type/Style: Art Moderne Description of physical appearance & significant architectural features:. (Include additions, alterations, ancillary structures, and landscaping if applicable) This is a two-story Art Moderne apartment house. It is a good, early example of the style. It has a flat roof. Two rounded stairwell towers with glass block windows project from the front of the building. The apartment windows are horizontal industrial sash of metal. The moldings above the windows sweep around the building accentuating its curves. The building is almost unchanged from its original design, except for a recent coat of dark brown paint over the original white. -Thomas W. Hanchett g > O fe I Statement of Historical Significance: D a D D n Aboriginal Americans Agriculture Architecture The Arts Commerce O a Q D a Communication Conservation Education Exploration/Settlement Industry D a a a D Military Mining Minority Groups Political Recreation a Q a D Religion Science Socio-Humanitarian Transportation 1 This two-story Art Moderne apartment building is a good early example of the style. It is the best Art Moderne structure in the Avenues Historic District. The building helps document the increase in multi-family housing that* began in the Avenues around the turn of the century and was particularly noticeable in the 1930's. The building was constructed in 1936 or 1937 for Charles E. Wymer, who was then a salesman for the MJB Company. He bought the land on which the building stands from the Sterling Apartment Company in 1936. They apparently had plans at one time to build an apartment on the property. |
