Editing Streamline Moderne (section)

==Architecture==
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Streamline Moderne appeared most often in buildings related to transportation and movement, such as bus and train stations, airport terminals, roadside cafes, and port buildings.<ref>Bridge, Nicole. ''Architecture 101'', [[Simon & Schuster]], New York, (2015), page 203.</ref> It had characteristics common with [[modern architecture]], including a horizontal orientation, rounded corners, the use of glass brick walls or porthole windows, flat roofs, chrome-plated hardware, and horizontal grooves or lines in the walls. They were frequently white or in subdued pastel colors.

An example of this style is the Aquatic Park Bathhouse in the [[Aquatic Park Historic District]], in San Francisco. Built beginning in 1936 by the [[Works Progress Administration]], it features the distinctive horizontal lines, classic rounded corners railing and windows of the style, resembling the elements of ship. The interior preserves much of the original decoration and detail, including murals by artist and color theoretician [[Hilaire Hiler]]. The architects were William Mooser Jr. and William Mooser III. It is now the administrative center of Aquatic Park Historic District.<ref>{{Cite web |title=National Park Service: Architecture in the Parks (Aquatic Park) |url=https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/harrison/harrison29.htm |access-date=2025-04-03 |website=www.nps.gov}}</ref>

The [[Normandie Hotel]] in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]], which opened during 1942, is built in the stylized shape of the ocean liner SS ''Normandie'', and displays the ship's original sign. The [[Streamliner#Sterling Streamliner diners|Sterling Streamliner Diners]] in [[New England]] were [[diner]]s designed like streamlined trains.

Another example is [[Hollywood, California]]'s [[Julian Medical Building]], which has been described as a "landmark",<ref name=NRHP_hollywood>{{Cite web |title=Hollywood Boulevard Commercial and Entertainment District |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/236d3254-47ee-4b31-9045-c2999cc465f2/ |publisher=[[United States Department of the Interior]] - [[National Park Service]] |date=April 4, 1985 |language=en-US}}</ref> "an architectural masterpiece",<ref name="sociallandmarks">{{Cite web |title=Julian Medical Building |url=https://socallandmarks.com/index.php/2023/03/12/julian-medical-building/ |website=socallandmarks.com |date=March 12, 2023 |language=en-US}}</ref> and "one of the crowning achievements of Streamline Moderne."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Winter |first=Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WWl29hn0C9gC |title=An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles |date=2009 |publisher=[[Gibbs Smith]] |isbn=978-1-4236-0893-6 |page=181 |language=en}}</ref> The building's distinctive features include a rounded [[Moderne architecture|Moderne]] corner, windswept tower, and pylon-separated horizontally-reinforced windows.<ref name=NRHP_hollywood/><ref name="hmdb">{{Cite web |title=Owl Drug/Julian Medical - Hollywood Historic Site|url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=231861 |publisher=[[Hollywood Chamber of Commerce]] |accessdate=July 4, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref>

Although Streamline Moderne houses are less common than streamline commercial buildings, residences do exist. The [[Lydecker House]] in [[Los Angeles]], built by [[Lydecker brothers|Howard Lydecker]], is an example of Streamline Moderne design in residential architecture. In tract development, elements of the style were sometimes used as a variation in postwar [[Terraced house|row housing]] in San Francisco's [[Sunset District, San Francisco|Sunset District]].

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File:Julian medical bldg.jpg|[[Julian Medical Building]] in [[Hollywood, California]], by [[Morgan, Walls & Clements]] (1934)
File:Coca-Cola Building Los Angeles.jpg|Coca-Cola factory in [[Los Angeles]] by [[Robert V. Derrah]] (1936)
File:East Finchley Station - geograph.org.uk - 909900.jpg|[[East Finchley tube station|East Finchley Tube station]], London (1937)
File:Hecht warehouse washington dc.jpg|[[Hecht Company Warehouse]] in northeast [[Washington, D.C.]] (1937)
File:Pan-Pacific Auditorium entrance.jpg|[[Pan-Pacific Auditorium]] in Los Angeles, California (1935–1989)
File:LaGuardia MarineAirTerminal 1974.jpg|[[Marine Air Terminal]] of [[LaGuardia Airport]], New York (1939)
File:Hotel Shangri-La Santa Monica.jpg|[[Hotel Shangri-La]] (1939), Santa Monica, California
File:Greyhound Station Columbia SC LOC 570829cu.jpg|Greyhound Bus Station, Columbia, South Carolina (1936–1939)
File:Union Pacific Station, Las Vegas, Nevada (74656).jpg|The [[Las Vegas]] [[Union Pacific Railroad]] station (mid-1930s, demolished 1971)
File:First Church of Deliverance 2.jpg|Streamline Moderne church, [[First Church of Deliverance]], Chicago, Illinois, by [[Walter T. Bailey]]. (Opened 1939, façade towers added 1948)
File:Studio of National Broadcasting System, at night, Radio City, Hollywood, Calif (67295).jpg|Night image, NBC Hollywood Studios (also known as "Radio City Hollywood") at [[Sunset Boulevard|Sunset]] and [[Vine Street|Vine]] (1938)
File:Bluff Park Histric Photo circa 1960.jpg|Bluff Park Historic District,  Long Beach, CA 
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