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Article: Virginia's Overlooked Art Deco; There Isn't Much of It, but What's There Is Good
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- The Washington Post
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- June 6, 1987
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In Virginia, the term "historic architecture" conjures up visions
of Colonial Williamsburg or the Confederate White House in Richmond,
not the sleek, streamlined look of the late 1920s and 1930s.
The architecture of the Art Deco period, which emerged from the
1925 Paris exposition of the decorative arts, generally has been
overlooked in the state.
"Some people think history stops with the Civil War," said
Richard Striner, president and founder of the Art Deco Society of
Washington.
Art deco is "overlooked, definitely," said Richard G. Wilson,
professor of architectural history at the University of Virginia.
"Not that there's that much of it. Virginia architecture has always
been ...