Fine Arts Building

Information about the building below is from Architectural Digest, volume 6, no. 4, p. 37:

Art figures: Kendall & Delaney
Cabinet work: Commercial Fixture Company
Colton cement: Oro Grande Lime & Stone Company
Common brick: Simons Brick Company
Decorating: Heinsbergen Decorating Company
Elevator accessories: Randall Control & Hydrometric Corp.
Elevator motors: Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Company
Elevators, furnished and installed: Llewellyn Iron Works
Hardware: Earle Hardware Mfg. Company
Heating systems: Illinois Engineering Company
Lighting fixtures; The Meyberg Company
Ornamental iron, bronze & hollow metal doors: A. J. Bayer Company
Panel boards and main switchboards: Diamond Electrical Mfg. Company
Plumbing fixtures: Washington Iron Works
Structural steel fabricated and erected: Llewellyn Iron Works
Terra-cotta and hollow tile: Gladding, McBean & Company

• Photograph of the Fine Arts (also known as Signal Oil) building from 1933.
  
• Decorative arches and grillwork over the doors
  
• Figures on jamb
  
• Exterior Sculptures by Burt William Johnson:
  • "Architecture" and "Sculpture".
  • Other exterior sculptures, located at the top of the building.
  • View of the lobby and interior elements.

• Background information on the ornamentation of the building.
• A brief biography on Burt William Johnson.
• Text from a 1999 "Fine Arts Building" handout detailing the building's history.
• "A Study in Terra-Cotta Contrasts", article about the Fine Arts building, which appeared in Shapes of Clay, volume 11, no. 11, 1926.
• A. R. Walker, "An Interpretation In Stone and Concrete: 'The Fine Arts Building'", article about the Fine Arts building which appeared in The Skyscraper, volume II, no. 10, December 1926.

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