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Item information

Title:
Facade Details, Snow Building
Topics:
Architecture
Subjects:
Art deco (Architecture)
Facades
Multistory buildings
Office buildings
Pilasters
Windows
Original Format:
Black and white print (photograph)
Item identifier:
ncar_N_76_2_250
Photographer:
Smith, H. Mck. more info on Smith, H. Mck. 
Created Date:
Genre:
Architectural photographs
Location:
Durham County (N.C.)
Digital Project:
Beaux Arts to Modernism

Source information

Repository:
State Archives of North Carolina
Collection:
Division of Archives and History Photograph Collection (State Archives of North Carolina Collection 4.1) held by State Archives of North Carolina
Note field:
Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
Rights:
Reproduction and use of this material requires permission from the North Carolina State Archives.
Funding:
Digitization of this image was partially supported with federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.

Building: Snow Building (Durham, Durham County, North Carolina)

Architect:
more info on Northup & O'Brien (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 
Architect:
more info on Carr, George Watts 
Built:
Street:
331 West Main Street
Community:
Durham
State:
North Carolina
Zip:
27701
Architectural note:
One of the finest Art Deco style buildings in the state, the Snow Building exhibits Gothic Revival style pilasters and a spiked roofline, with a recessed entryway in a Deco-Gothic frame.
Location:
Durham (N.C.)
Subjects:
Commercial buildings
Historic buildings
Multistory buildings
Latitude, Longitude:
35.996497, -78.903729