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original c. 1930 american art deco style calumet theater exterior building facade limestone panel featuring highly stylized floral motifs
  • original c. 1930 american art deco style calumet theater exterior building facade limestone panel featuring highly stylized floral motifs
  • original c. 1930 american art deco style calumet theater exterior building facade limestone panel featuring highly stylized floral motifs
original c. 1930 american art deco style calumet theater exterior building facade limestone panel featuring highly stylized floral motifs

original c. 1930 american art deco style calumet theater exterior building facade limestone panel featuring highly stylized floral motifs

SKU: UR-12411-11
historically important american art deco carved limestone frieze panel salvaged from the facade of the non-extant calumet theater constructed in 1930. the remarkably well-designed exterior panel features brandt-esque foliated scrolls, leafage, wavy lines and zig-zag motifs in low-relief. the solid limestone panel may have been fabricated by the bedford limestone co., bedford, ind. the calumet theater was designed by architect lewis hess with charles n. scott as general contractor or builder. both the cornerstone and facade identify the building owner as h. p. downey. the small venue was built in the art deco or moderne style, with a facade clad in ornamental limestone and a centrally located illuminated marquee positioned above the ticket booth. the two sets of entrance doors are flanked by curvaceous, streamlined style curtain walls containing oversized poster display cases set into the wall. the depilated theater was demolished in december of 2011 after decades of neglect. the panel exhibits a mostly uniform and naturally aged surface patina. measures 49 3/4 x 24 inches.

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