Art Deco masterpiece
Downtown Boston, in 1931, during The Great Depression. The stepped back Art Deco skycraper here was the headquarters of the now long-gone United Shoe Machinery Corp. The steel-frame skyscraper has 24 stories and a penthouse, and was built in 1929–1930 to a design by George W. Fuller and Parker, Thomas & Rice. It is Boston's finest Art Deco office building, including an elaborately decorated lobby. My father went to work in that building from 1946-1968.
For 20 years it was Boston’s tallest building. Incredibly it was almost demolished in 1981 but an outcry from preservationists saved it.
— Robert Whitcomb
Recent shot of the gold-gilded top skyscraper, in “TheHub’s’’ financial district.