Los Angeles Time Machine: Here are a few pics of Santa Monica City Hall. Jennie and I stopped to take these on one of our recent sojourns into Los Angeles. This is a stunningly beautiful and very modern building, considering it was designed and built in the late 1930s. From the Living New Deal website: “Santa Monica City Hall is a WPA project, and its architectural style has been dubbed WPA Moderne. This style of architecture was most widely used in building projects financed by the federal government and constructed by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works… Santa Monica City Hall was built in 1938-39 by architects Donald B. Parkinson and Joseph M. Estep, and is a fine example of Deco Moderne architecture. From Art Deco, City Hall borrows geometric and angular ornamentation in low relief, vertical projections and a sense of symmetry. From Art Moderne, it took faceted corners, a flat roof, continuous ribbons of windows and a horizontal flow. Of primary historic interest is the grand entry lobby with high walls, grand stairways and artworks. Original Gladding McBean ceramic tiles are found around the west entrance doorway and throughout the building. The City Hall walls feature historic Stanton Macdonald-Wright murals documenting the citys and the states history. In addition to being a local landmark, the contributions of so many great talents has earned the Santa Monica City Hall a place in the California Register of Historical Resources and eligibility for listing in the federal Register of Historic Places.” Photos by Jennie Quimbita.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 22:09:29 +0000
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