Every so often I'll like a piece of architecture so much that I will copy it from my resource book into my sketchbook journal. This is one of those structures. It is the "Butler House" in Des Moines, Iowa, built in 1934-36. The architects are listed as "Kraetsch and Kraetsch". The building is from the height of the Art Deco era. I adapted this design for a fantasy building which I blogged here many years ago. The real house still exists and has been turned into a luxury bed-and-breakfast.
I apologize for the mess on the left side of the drawing. I couldn't get the sketchbook to lie flat on the scanner. A perpetual graphic design problem.
Black tech pen on sketchbook page, 7 1/2" x 3 1/2", May 29, 2003.
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