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Coos Bay OR Marshfield School architecture (#1098)
I was looking for a way to avoid traffic on US 101 and happened to notice up a hill, in sort of an odd place, a large building that looked like an auditorium. I decided to go investigate, and came across Marshfield School (Marshfield was the original name of Coos Bay). The architecture for three of the buildings is quite unique, and also similar to the architecture often found in school buildings funded by the New Deal. Searching around, I was able to find a link (see below) that said the auditorium (this picture) was constructed with New Deal funding but it did not mention the other buildings which are similar in style.
The Wikipedia (see below) for the school does say that the Main Building and West Gym were constructed to fit with the overall theme and were built in 1940 and 1939, respectively. Considering the time of construction, the similarity in styles, and that the WPA was active in the area at that time, it may be that these were all New Deal. In any case, they’re interesting examples of art deco. Though the websites say ‘art deco’, they have enough ‘streamline moderne’ feel that it seems to me they might be considered to be PWA Moderne style.
Auditorium link: bluebook.state.or.us/facts/scenic/dep/dep23.htm
Wikipedia on school: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshfield_High_School_(Coos_Bay,_Oregon)
The Wikipedia (see below) for the school does say that the Main Building and West Gym were constructed to fit with the overall theme and were built in 1940 and 1939, respectively. Considering the time of construction, the similarity in styles, and that the WPA was active in the area at that time, it may be that these were all New Deal. In any case, they’re interesting examples of art deco. Though the websites say ‘art deco’, they have enough ‘streamline moderne’ feel that it seems to me they might be considered to be PWA Moderne style.
Auditorium link: bluebook.state.or.us/facts/scenic/dep/dep23.htm
Wikipedia on school: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshfield_High_School_(Coos_Bay,_Oregon)
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Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Diane Putnam clubDiane Putnam club has replied to Don Barrett (aka DBs… clubDon Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Diane Putnam clubDiane Putnam club has replied to Don Barrett (aka DBs… clubMy take on this building is it's a hybrid of Bauhaus/Moderne/Art Deco. I spend time on Google Street View in Russia (also a couple of E. Euro. countries have SV) and see this kind of thing, but most of it is now crumbling like a villa in Havana. I adore the shabby, avant-garde bus stops www.slate.fr/grand-format/arrets-bus-abribus-sovietiques-herwig and the city entrance signs are especially funky and fascinating. Pripyat: enformable.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Chernobyl-Pripyat-8.jpg It's probably been done, but I'd love to roam around Russia (wow, tall order) and photograph signs.
Diane Putnam club has addedDon Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to Diane Putnam clubI agree about the similarity but think the common element across multiple cultures was the assumption/hope that industrialism could solve everything. Marx assumed that industry would advance to the point that all workers, freed from work demands and from the limits placed by the capital class, would have plenty of time and opportunity to explore. The tyranny of the "Communist" countries was quite a distance from the the ideals (something we know something here about as well). Propaganda, on both sides, influenced architecture into an expression of striving for some higher, common, good that was not achievable.
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