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Article: TIMID EDGEWATER DESIGN NEEDS LIGHTER TOUCH.(THE CAP TIMES)
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- The Capital Times
- Article date:
- September 16, 2009
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Byline: WHITNEY GOULD
What a lovely artifact the Edgewater Hotel is. Designed by architect Lawrence Monberg and opened in 1948 as an apartment building, the Edgewater was a last gasp of the Streamline Moderne style, which celebrated the sleek profiles and aerodynamic shapes of luxury liners, locomotives and other symbols of the machine age.
With its portholes, wraparound windows, curved portico and buff brick, the Edgewater (it became a hotel in 1950) is all of a piece with two other Monberg buildings nearby: the Quisling Terrace apartments (formerly the Quisling Clinic), at 2 W. Gorham St., and the Quisling Towers apartment building, 1 E. Gilman St.
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