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Blanden Memorial Art Gallery

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1931–1932, E. O. Damon, Jr. Northwest corner of 3rd Ave. S. and 10th St.
  • Blanden Memorial Art Gallery (David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim)

The Fort Dodge architect E. O. Damon, responding to the taste of the time, utilized the mid-fifteenth-century Italian Renaissance mode as his point of departure. This was in deference to his patron, Charles Blanden, who had indicated to his architect his fondness for the Butler Institute of American Art at Youngstown, Ohio. A groin-vaulted three-arched loggia is flanked by blank walls. Each of these walls contains a niche with a seashell half dome. The tripartite division of the entrance facade is reinforced by Ionic pilasters that support a wide, carefully divided entablature and cornice. The building is idyllically situated within a park, which enhances its public character; the surrounding trees and shrubs bring out its small scale and intimate details.

Writing Credits

Author: 
David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim
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Citation

David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim, "Blanden Memorial Art Gallery", [Fort Dodge, Iowa], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/IA-01-NO134.

Print Source

Buildings of Iowa, David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 390-390.

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