Strietmann Biscuit Company Keebler Plant, Trade Street, Mariemont, OH : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Strietmann Biscuit Company Keebler Plant, Trade Street, Mariemont, OH / w_lemay
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Built in 1941-1943, this Art Deco-style factory was designed by architect John Henri Deeken for the Strietmann Biscuit Company as a factory to produce baked goods. It replaced the earlier Strietmann Factory in Over-the-Rhine, which was initially built in 1899 and had been expanded multiple times, but no longer was well-suited for more modern methods of production and had limited space to expand, which became an increasing issue after Strietmann’s acquisition in 1927 by the United Biscuit Company. The building is clad in buff brick and extends 1,450 feet to the rear, with roof monitors featuring gabled roofs, clad in corrugated metal and large expanses of windows, with the sides and rear of the building featuring brick pilasters and large window bays, most infilled with brick, and a concrete base. The most architecturally significant portion of the building is the highly detailed front office wing at the building’s west end, which is clad in the same materials as the rest of the building, but features recessed brick reveals that accentuate the horizontality of the building and visually highlight the window bays on the front facade, bays flanked by pilasters with decorative aluminum spandrel panels featuring bushels of wheat between the first and second floor windows at the corners of the building, with the bay on the building’s north facade having been obscured due to a newer addition on the north side, decorative brickwork at the parapet, which is topped with a stone cap, stone caps on the pilasters, stone sills, and a taller entrance tower with a Kellogg’s sign mounted atop the roof, below which there is a low-slope roof enclosed by a parapet with a multi-tier stone cap, pilasters below the corners of the roof, an Art Deco-style minimalist clock face over the second-story windows, decorative cast aluminum screens heavily utilizing a wheat motif that looks a bit like a stylized “K” at the three narrow second-story windows, a front door flanked by two fluted curved walls clad in stone, with the aluminum double door and transom featuring more of the same cast aluminum screens as above, utilizing the same wheat motif, and a set of concrete front steps flanked by two stone bases that are presently occupied by decorative urn planters. Inside the original front entrance to the building is a very intact historic Art Deco lobby with an original chandelier, twin staircases with cast aluminum railings featuring panels with the same wheat motif as the outside, a terrazzo floor with decorative inlays, a wooden Art Deco-style cabinet, and polished marble paneling and wainscoting. The building is one of the finest examples of Art Deco in the Greater Cincinnati area, and is an excellent example of the style as applied to an industrial facility, along with Deeken’s other significant work, the former Coca-Cola Bottling Plant in Cincinnati, which is a building that is of equal design quality and significance. |
| 撮影日 | 2023-01-21 12:58:38 |
| 撮影者 | w_lemay , Chicago, IL, United States |
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| 撮影地 | Village of Fairfax, Ohio, United States 地図 |