{"id":4209,"date":"2011-10-05T23:37:48","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T03:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=4209"},"modified":"2011-10-05T23:37:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T03:37:48","slug":"wall-street-architect-literally-occupies-wall-street-in-1931","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/05\/wall-street-architect-literally-occupies-wall-street-in-1931\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street architect literally occupies Wall Street in 1931"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While researching Jim Mooney&#8217;s career to see whether it lined up with the advertising art<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2011\/10\/05\/1950-clorox-ad-drawn-by-jim-mooney\/\"> I mentioned earlier<\/a>,  I fell down the rabbit hole of Google, and eventually ended up staring at the photo below of three architects dressed up  as famous  buildings each had designed.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s William Van Alen, architect of the Chrysler Building, in the center; Ely Jacques Kahn, who designed the Squibb Building, to the left; and  Ralph Walker, designer of   One Wall Street, to the right. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ArchitectsChryslerBuilding.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ArchitectsChryslerBuilding-179x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ArchitectsChryslerBuilding\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ArchitectsChryslerBuilding-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ArchitectsChryslerBuilding-612x1024.jpg 612w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/ArchitectsChryslerBuilding.jpg 935w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right. A Wall Street architect was literally occupying Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>The reason they were decked out like that back in 1931 was to attend the  Society of Beaux-Arts Architects annual ball, which I hope took place in a room with tall doors and high ceilings.<\/p>\n<p>(I spotted this photo on multiple sites, but I smurched this one from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elevatorview.com\/2011\/03\/08\/architects-dressed-as-their-buildings\/\">Elevator View<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While researching Jim Mooney&#8217;s career to see whether it lined up with the advertising art I mentioned earlier, I fell down the rabbit hole of Google, and eventually ended up staring at the photo below of three architects dressed up as famous buildings each had designed. That&#8217;s William Van Alen, architect of the Chrysler Building, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}