Burwell Building (Tennessee Theater), Gay Street, Knoxville, TN : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Burwell Building (Tennessee Theater), Gay Street, Knoxville, TN / w_lemay
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| 説明 | Built in 1908 as the Burwell Building, one of Knoxville’s first downtown office skyscrapers, this Renaissance Revival-style building was designed by McCarty, Richards and Bulford, and consisted of a three-bay wide structure that stretched along Clinch Avenue. In 1928, the building received a four-bay side addition and a rear theater addition, designed by Graven and Mayger, which converted it into the Tennessee Theater building, with the theater, originally showing movies, continuing operation today as a live performance venue. The building features a cream brick exterior, bracketed cornice with modillions, fixed and three-over-three windows, decorative stone trim, an ornate band of belt coursing at the base of the top floor and the third floor, brick banding on the second floor, a cornice with dentils at the top of the first floor, pilasters on the first floor with decorative capitals, arched windows on the Clinch Avenue facade with complex mullion patterns, stone trim and pilasters on the original first floor front facade of the building on Gay Street with two ionic capitals, floral motifs, and three ground-level openings with clerestories above and decorative carved stone spandrel panels, a decorative semi-circular awning over the entrance door to the building’s original lobby, a large opening to the theater lobby on the first floor of the addition with a marquee above, with a two-tone quarry tile floor, a ticket booth with brass trim and a serpentinite base, brass doors and trim at the entrance to the theater, and terra cotta panels, with the tower of the addition being shallower than the original, giving the tower of the building an L-shaped footprint. Behind the tower is a shorter two-story wing with a first floor retail space along Clinch Avenue, which links the tower to the externally unadorned theater in the rear, which is clad in red brick, and features an ornate interior with an intricately painted polychromatic ceiling, a central coffered oval section, decorative medallions, a decorative proscenium arch, decorative wall panels, a balcony with a paneled railing featuring decorative medallions, decorative pilasters, and a lobby with similar painted motifs, decorative panels, chandeliers, a grand staircase, painted ceiling, and moorish blind arches on the walls. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and underwent a thorough restoration in the early 2000s, presently serving as a live performance venue. The building is also a contributing structure in the Gay Street Commercial Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. |
| 撮影日 | 2022-09-11 18:20:10 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Knoxville, Tennessee, United States 地図 |