Masonic Hall and College Street, Toronto
Toronto as a boomtown, Toronto as a late bloomer, and Toronto as transition—and an especially grandiose liquor store.
Maryland Hotel / Warwick Hotel, San Francisco
A tidy Beaux Arts hotel designed by Righetti & Headman on the edge of the Tenderloin, the Maryland Hotel was built in 1912 and followed an extremely typical trajectory for a San Francisco residential hotel.
Station Hollands Spoor, the Hague, the Netherlands
A bit of an anachronism and a survivor, Den Haag Hollands Spoor is one the Hague’s two main train stations, which somehow never consolidated.
Swedish Gustaf's Church, Copenhagen
Basically the Øresund in built form foreshadowing the century of friendship that followed, the monarchs of both Sweden and Denmark dedicated Svenska Gustafskyrkan when it opened in 1911.
Church Center for the United Nations, New York
The Church Center for the United Nations doesn’t exactly live up to its vibrant portrayal in this postcard, but the modernist chapel here is neat. Designed by William Lescaze, the United Methodist Church intended the Church Center to be a interfaith religious mission to the UN.