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Streamline Modern sign from the 1930s in Manitou Springs.
October 3rd, 2011 / No Comments » / by Scott Murdock
Shangri-La has been found! It’s in Denver!
Fascinating post on Streamline Modern art director Stephen Goosson, who designed
the sets for Lost Horizon. (Click the picture)
August 5th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Everyone’s favorite
Everyone’s favorite Bonnie Brae Streamline Modern home, designed 1938 by Lester Jones.
Photo taken of the back while driving by…
July 7th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Boulder International-style
An International-style house on ‘The Hill’ in Boulder, designed by Glen Huntington,
sometime in the 1930s, I presume.
May 26th, 2011 / 2 Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Corner office of Red Cross Building
Looking at the main office in the corner of the Red Cross Building near Speer, designed
1951 by Edwin Francis. (Click photo to enlarge)
Taken at Doors Open Denver last weekend.
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(Nice to see Governer Hickenlooper at Kulwicki benefit tonight at the Larimer Lounge!)
April 24th, 2011 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Inspiration Point International-style
This is another modernist home on Inspiration Terrace built by Denver businessman
Alphonse Martischang on the east side of Inspiration Point.
What is especially interesting about this house is that it seems to have embraced the
International Style during two different, but very early eras. The original brick house with
eaves from 1932 borders on Streamline Moderne, while the 1942 update adds the upper
deck with the glorious 360-degree view which is probably one of the best in the city!
December 2nd, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Hotel Monaco
Hotel Monaco, downtown’s Streamline Modern hotel designed by
Fisher & Fisher 1938 as the Railway Exchange building.
November 19th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Denver Art Deco brickwork
The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless building at 21st & Champa, a beautiful
example of 1930’s-era Art Deco brickwork.
November 15th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
This morning on Colfax
The Las Vegas style-sign, horse and streamline-modern pre-fabricated aluminum of
Davies’ Chuck Wagon Diner, a W. Colfax institution, built 1957.
November 13th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Neirenberg House
Streamline house that you see all the time driving down Bonnie Brae Boulevard, built 1938.
Contrast with this photo taken in a different season.
September 21st, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Dorset House
The Streamline Modern Dorset House on Capitol Hill, built 1938.
August 23rd, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Art Deco/Streamline Modern theater-marquee style of the
Nathaniel Hawthorne building on Denver’s Poet’s Row,
designed 1938 by Charles Strong.
August 3rd, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Pullman Vista Observation Car
A Santa Fe Super Chief Pullman Vista Observation Lounge Car from the early 1950s.
This car is at the Colorado Railroad Museum between the two mesas east of Golden.
August 2nd, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Shangri-La
A repeat of a Denver Eye favorite:
The Harry Huffman Mansion, designed 1938 by Raymond Harry Ervin. A mix of Art Deco and Streamline Modern, it was designed to mimic the mansion from Frank Capra’s film, Lost Horizon.
Lost Horizon (1937)
Ervin’s design may even be superior to the original!
July 24th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Denver monorail design
Otto Kuhler was one of the world’s most famous industrial designers, well known for his Streamline Modern locomotives from the 1930s.
In 1967 he illustrated plans for a monorail system for Denver that was never built.
In most places the monorail would be suspended above existing rail lines, though it is riding through downtown in this drawing. (That seems to be I.M. Pei’s Mile High Tower in the background, though the Brown Palace across the street, seems to have been left out.)
Kuhler seems to have retained much of his 1930s/40s Streamline design in these 1967 illustrations. (I believe that is supposed to be Cherry Creek in the drawing above)
July 18th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by Tom Lundin
Winter is over
Winter is over, so let’s take a last Winter look at Shangri-La in the snow.
Raymond Harry Ervin designed this mansion in 1938 to look like the sanctuary in the original film version of Lost Horizon.
May 17th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Streamline modern
Great Streamline Moderne home on Bonnie Brae, designed 1938 by Lester Jones.
April 13th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Art Deco gas station
This old gas station on Colfax Avenue, is perhaps Denver’s best example of an Art Deco
or Streamline Modern gas station.
April 12th, 2010 / 1 Comment » / by admin
Johnson’s Corner Gas Station
Designed 1937 by Eugene Groves, this all-concrete structure was moved to it’s current location for restoration in Prospect New Town, Longmont.
It’s in danger these days as it is very expensive to restore. The possibilities can be seen though, in this other Eugene Groves design.
April 9th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Huntington Arms
The Huntington Arms on The Hill in Boulder, designed 1939 by Glen Huntington.
April 3rd, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Davies’ Chuck Wagon
March 23rd, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Bonnie Brae streamline moderne
This nice example of a ’30s-era streamline moderne house on Bonnie Brae Boulevard has a near twin over on Monoco Parkway.
March 15th, 2010 / 2 Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Crest House
The Crest House atop Mt. Evans. Originally an Art Moderne design from 1941 by Edwin Francis, before it burned in 1979.
Situated at 14,420 feet above sea level, this was once the highest structure in the world!
March 8th, 2010 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
Davies’ Chuck Wagon
Horse atop Davies’ Chuck Wagon in Lakewood on W. Colfax.
January 27th, 2010 / No Comments » / by admin
Cruise Room in the Oxford Hotel
Inside The Cruise Room at the Oxford Hotel.
The Cruise Room was designed 1933 by Charles Jaka.
The Cruise Room combines Art Deco and Streamline Moderne elements.
“Here’s How”
November 29th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Tom Lundin
