original american art deco style c. 1920's machine age cast brass and frosted glass interior conway building illuminated elevator signal lantern
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d. h., burnham & co., architects
fully functional c. 1920's american art deco style machine age illuminated bi-color elevator lobby directional (i.e., up/down) lantern salvaged from the downtown chicago conway building. the machine age wall-mount lantern contains a cast bronze frame or enclosure featuring three grooved rings used to support the two distinctive translucent or frosted glass panels containing lightly etched directional arrows. each section contains two low-watt sockets with colored light bulbs (e.g., red and blue) indicating the arrival of an up or down traveling elevator car. the annunciator signal lanterns were likely installed between 1920-30. the exact fabricator is not known. the conway building was developed by the marshall field estate, and named after conway, massachusetts - the birthplace of marshall field. the 22-story white terra cotta-clad neoclassical style building was completed in 1914. the architectural firm was d.h. burnham & co., with frederick p. dinkelberg as principal designer. the extant building was later renamed the burnham center. measures 5 x 4 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches.
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