The Leeman Auto Company Building, at 550 Broadway in
Denver, Colorado
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, was built in 1932 and expanded in 1934. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 2001.
[
It is an L-shaped one-story ]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 Unite ...
-style building built of brick and terra cotta
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In applied art, craft, construction, and architecture, terracotta ...
to serve as an automobile showroom and service facility.[ With ]
The 1932 original building was probably designed by architect Raymond Harry Ervin; he is documented as having designed the large expansion in 1934.[
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References
National Register of Historic Places in Denver
Art Deco architecture in Colorado
Commercial buildings completed in 1932
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