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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
below: just a reminder of how the hotel looked before the 1920s addition. Stately and elegant
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There's a stock-plan apartment building that I've seen a dozen or more examples of, all in pretty desperate nick. I should have collected addresses, because I'm sure they're disappearing quickly. Anyway, they remind me of the Westmoore. (LA had a bit of a thing for Corinthian columns around the turn of the twentieth century, maybe influenced by the 1892 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, which set advances in American architecture back a fair piece, with the exception of Louis Sullivan's Transportation Building.)
Although they can be very pretty, I find French Neoclassical-inspired buildings very odd-looking here, although I don't mind them at all on the Riviera.
West 15th & Magnolia:
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One of our more prominent examples of the short-lived Corinthian craze is
Parkinson's confection on 6th & Olive, later streamlined by the same architect:
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