Honoring the Past, Building a Future
Our Art Deco journey takes us to Los Angeles, 1928. Picture the golden age of Hollywood: silent film stars, lavish sets, and a city inventing itself as a modern capital of style. In the midst of it all, Frank Lloyd Wright Jr., the son of America’s most famous architect, designed a house that still turns … Continue reading The Samuel-Novarro House: Two Faces of an Icon – Art Deco Form
A Beautiful Art Deco example
This has a nice ring to it. If you are addicted to English mysteries as I am, you are familiar with the expression. In British, and other Commonwealth English, 'bloody hell' is an informal, mildly offensive expletive used to express surprise, annoyance, disbelief, anger, or frustration. Like, "Bloody hell, I can’t believe we missed the … Continue reading Bloody Hell!
Why write about Art Deco when Rocky Mount has few examples of the style? Because learning to see architecture, in all its forms, builds our vocabulary for preservation. The more we understand design, the more we appreciate what we have, and the more we recognize beauty wherever it appears. Studying Art Deco sharpens our eye … Continue reading Part 1: Learning the Language of Art Deco
Rocky Mount, NC, is fascinating in all sorts of ways, and its history offers us marvelous examples of why people do what they do. One of the great questions to start with is, “why is Rocky Mount HERE?” Most of us will have automatically answered: “Because of the Falls of the Tar River,” but that … Continue reading The Rocks Under Our Feet – Guest Blogger: Rev. Peter H. Gilliland
Main Street Rocky Mount 