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Images-Seaport and Civic Center Tobacco Warehouse |
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architect |
G. Curtis Gillespie |
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location |
84-85 South St. |
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date |
1902 |
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style |
Romanesque Revival, with Art Nouveau touches. |
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type |
Warehouse |
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notes |
A relatively late addition to the port, this commercial warehouse is one of more eclectic and inventive buildings in the area. Its design combines Romanesque Revival architectural elements with terra-cotta decoration reminiscent of Art Nouveau. Easy to manipulate and inexpensive to produce, terra-cotta allowed flexibility and creativity in ornamentation. The warehouse is decorated with tobacco plant and leaf motifs which reveals the commom turn-of-the-century practice of incorporating American motifs into a stylistic language imported from Europe. This decorative program announces the building's function in symbolic terms. |
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