Horace Mann Middle School, a Temple Buell Art Deco brick masterpiece designed in 1931.

Named after the famous education reformer from Massachusetts,
the floor plan view is a giant “H”.

And because the floor plan is clearly an “H”, I would suggest that the elevations also
represent abstracted “H”’s, as well.

Temple Buell is the master Denver architect repsonsible for the location of the Cherry Creek Shopping Center. In the 1930s, he designed Art Deco treasures, thankfully some still survive today. Other examples are the brick Mullen’s Home For Nurses and the terra cotta Paramount Theatre.

I cannot imagine how the designs created from the stacked brick could be planned out on a sheet of drafting paper or how bricklayers could even implement these plans.

(as always, click photos to enlarge)

Bryant-Webster Elementary, an Art Deco design from
1932 by G. Meredith Musick and J. Roger Musick.

Doorway of the main entrance.

Buffalo and mountain abstracts.

I have a difficult time fathoming how someone can plan
such elaborate, decorative “3D” brickwork.

Secondary entrance.

Arrows and birds abstract.

The Buerger Brothers Beauty Supply building in downtown Denver, an Art Deco design
from 1929 by Montana Fallis. Fallis’ firm also designed the Art Deco Mayan Theater.

Terra cotta design from Buerger Brothers Beauty Supply.

The Historic Denver Guidebook, Denver: The Modern City (by Michael Paglia, Rodd Wheaton and Diane Wray Tomasso) suggests that Fallis’ son Myrlin Fallis might have been that actual designer of The Mayan and Buerger Bros.

In 1937 Buerger Brothers expanded into the Denver Fire Clay Building next door with a
white tile Art Deco makeover to create the Buerger Building Annex sister building.