Well, I didn’t fool anyone again yesterday.
Yesterday was the Chapel of Memories at Mississippi State. 1966, Dean & Pursell and featuring Flemish Bond in the alter details.
ThomFred thought it was a softball and quickly IDed the building. CRPIII had eagle eyes for the Flemish Bond and came up with the architect and Thomas scored the last point for the date.
I used the wider shot hoping to make it trickier to see the term – which didn’t work obviously – but for those doubting that it’s there, check out this image:
And now here is today’s:
Categories: Contest, Cool Old Places, Historic Preservation
The word is :Terrazzo:
Yup – that’s one of them
Mushroom capital
Yup!
Hawkins Elementary School, Hattiesburg, Built in 1951. Principal Architect: N.W. Overstreet.
Nailed it
somehow minoan, somehow frank lloyd-wright–i don’t know where it is; but it’s pretty cool.
Terrazzo!
You’re right – but late – Thomas beat you to it!
After traipsing through so many mute, dull school buildings, coming across this in person was a jaw-dropper.