Hotel--Beach and Park Place, Atlantic City, New Jersey; Charles H. Roberts, architect: an example of a tall classic or Georgian style building, with a lantern on top in the Wrenn manner.

Title

Hotel--Beach and Park Place, Atlantic City, New Jersey; Charles H. Roberts, architect: an example of a tall classic or Georgian style building, with a lantern on top in the Wrenn manner.

Description

This is a quite tall building, classically planned and detailed, and also with a lantern on top in the manner of 17th C. English architect Christopher Wrenn.  The lantern on the top is not unlike that atop the north tower of Market Square, Lake Forest.  Also, the base on which this lantern rests in the image recalls the main classic west end buildingl at Market Square, the former Marhsall Fields building.  thus, these Atlantic City classic elements were also drawn on by architect HOward Shaw for classic references in his eclectic (also domestic gothic/English Arts & Crafts) elemental (in parts) design for this first shopping center.

This is from the book of the 1929 Philadelphia architectural exhibition, from the collection of White & Weber, Architects, and donated by John Weber. 

Source

The Year Book of the Annual ARchitectural Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1929 (Philadelphia: The 32nd Joint Exhibition Board of  the American Institute of Architects, Philadelphia Chapter, and the T Square Club, 1929.

Publisher

Lake Forest College

Date

1929

Rights

http://www.lakeforest.edu/library/archives/permission.php

Format

still image

Language

eng

Type

jpg

Files

Philad., 1929-1.JPG

Citation

“Hotel--Beach and Park Place, Atlantic City, New Jersey; Charles H. Roberts, architect: an example of a tall classic or Georgian style building, with a lantern on top in the Wrenn manner.,” Digital Collections - Lake Forest College, accessed March 28, 2024, https://collections.lakeforest.edu/items/show/4018.

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