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Wayne State University; Buildings; Libraries; General and Kresge, Construction 1950-52
Circa 1950s. Exterior image of construction of General Library (Purdy-Kresge). Suren Pilafian with Frank Montana architect, 1953 and 1954. Designed in a modern idiom of lines, planes, solids and voids. The elemental composition is Bauhaus modern.
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Wayne State University; Buildings; Libraries; General and Kresge, Construction 1950-52
Circa 1950s. Exterior image of construction of General Library (Purdy-Kresge). Suren Pilafian with Frank Montana architect, 1953 and 1954. Designed in a modern idiom of lines, planes, solids and voids. The elemental composition is Bauhaus modern. date July 1951.
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Wayne State University; Buildings; Libraries; General and Kresge, Construction 1950-52
Circa 1950s. Exterior image of construction of General Library (Purdy-Kresge). Suren Pilafian with Frank Montana architect, 1953 and 1954. Designed in a modern idiom of lines, planes, solids and voids. The elemental composition is Bauhaus modern. Date March 26, 1951.
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Wayne State University; Buildings; Libraries; General and Kresge, Construction 1950-52
Circa 1950s. Exterior image of construction of General Library (Purdy-Kresge). Suren Pilafian with Frank Montana architect, 1953 and 1954. Designed in a modern idiom of lines, planes, solids and voids. The elemental composition is Bauhaus modern. Date March 26, 1951.
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Wayne State University; Buildings; Libraries; General and Kresge, Construction 1950-52
Circa 1950s. Exterior image of construction of General Library (Purdy-Kresge). Suren Pilafian with Frank Montana architect, 1953 and 1954. Designed in a modern idiom of lines, planes, solids and voids. The elemental composition is Bauhaus modern. Date August 1951.
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Wayne State University; Buildings; Libraries; General and Kresge, Construction 1950-52
Circa 1950s. Exterior image of construction of General Library (Purdy-Kresge). Suren Pilafian with Frank Montana architect, 1953 and 1954. Designed in a modern idiom of lines, planes, solids and voids. The elemental composition is Bauhaus modern. Date March 26,1951.
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Wayne State University; Buildings; Old Main; Recent
Circa 1950s. Exterior image of Old Main viewed from behind and to the side of building from upper floor of building most likely on Merrick Avenue west of Second Avenue. Malcomson and Higginbotham, 1896. Originally Central High School, Old Main is Wayne State’s place of origin and now a university icon. The stately Romanesque Revival composition is softened by the buff-colored brick. Under the leadership of David Mackenzie, a junior college was begun in the building in 1917. In 1926, high school…