Cornice, Snow Building

Snow Building (Durham, N.C.)

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Item information

Title:: Cornice, Snow Building
Topics:: Architecture
Subjects:: Art deco (Architecture)
Cornices
Multistory buildings
Office buildings
Sculpture
Windows
Original Format:: Black and white print (photograph)
Item identifier:: ncar_N_76_2_256
Photographer:: Smith, H. Mck. more info on Smith, H. Mck.
Created Date:: 1976-02
Genre:: Architectural photographs
Location:: Durham County (N.C.)
Digital Project:: Beaux Arts to Modernism

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.

Architect:: Northup & O'Brien (Winston-Salem, N.C.) more info on Northup & O'Brien (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
Architect:: Carr, George Watts more info on Carr, George Watts

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