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C… Cincinnati

Cincinnati Bell Building, Cincinnati, Ohio
by elycefeliz

Deco telephone company building in Cincinnati.

From Flickr:

The Cincinnati Bell Telephone Company building on West Seventh Street in Cincinnati, Ohio was completed in 1931. The Art Deco-style building was designed by Harry Hake, a Cincinnati architect. 

The 12-story builidng was designed with floor heights of at least 12 feet to house the new telephone equipment.

A decorative border above the second story is lined with niches in which cut-stone French telephones alternate with headphones. Communication is further symbolized by several reliefs showing the ancient runner, Alexander Bells’s first telephone effort, flag signaling from a ship, and conventional representations of a woman with a hare, swan, and hawk. In the ornate marble lobby are gold-and-silver metal reliefs of figures symbolizing man’s art, industry, and conquest of space.

The Cincinnati Bell Telephone Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

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C… Christchurch

West Avon Apartments, Christchurch, New Zealand
Photo by Canterbury Heritage

Vintage photo of Deco apartments in NZ.

From Flickr:

Art Deco Christchurch: West Avon 1930

The West Avon apartments on the south-west corner of Hereford and Montreal Streets.

Built in 1930, they would appear to be the design of the Architect Harry Francis Willis (1893-1972), who was also responsible for the 1932 New Regent Street development and the now concealed 1934 Art Deco facade of the State Cinema at the northeast corner of Gloucester and Colombo Streets.

Now sporting a penthouse, the Grade 3 protected building is currently painted in shades of blue and orange.