Mabel Smyth Memorial Building
The Mabel Smyth Memorial Building is a historic building in Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii. It was designed by Charles W. Dickey in 1937 and built in 1941. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 3, 1994. Background In 1937, Mabel Leilani Smyth died suddenly after serving as the superintendent of the Territory of Hawaii Public Nursing Service for eight years. In response to Smyth's death, a fund drive raised about $100,000 (the equivalent of $ in ) with the intent of creating a memorial, and local architect Charles W. Dickey submitted plans for what would become the Mabel Smyth Memorial Building. With Architecture The building has an L-shaped structure with two stories, made of concrete, and with a tiled hip roof. A stairway from the parking lot up to the main entrance features a railing with an 'ape leaf design, and the same motif is repeated above the door in a panel that also includes a caduceus, as well as in smaller panels below the second stor ...
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Art Deco
Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. Through styling and design of the exterior and interior of anything from large structures to small objects, including how people look (clothing, fashion and jewelry), Art Deco has influenced bridges, buildings (from skyscrapers to cinemas), ships, ocean liners, trains, cars, trucks, buses, furniture, and everyday objects like radios and vacuum cleaners. It got its name after the 1925 Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) held in Paris. Art Deco combined modern styles with fine craftsmanship and rich materials. During its heyday, it represented luxury, glamour, exuberance, and faith in socia ...
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