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Dan Kain Trophies, Inc. (Sheff Store Building)

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Sheff Store Building
1945–1946, Donald Hudson Drayer. 3100 Washington Blvd. (southwest corner of Washington Blvd. and N. Highland St.)

Originally an appliance store, the building is a surviving remnant of post–World War II streamlined design, with a long, horizontal form and a cylinder serving as a corner marker and entrance. The original interior is completely gone.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Richard Guy Wilson et al.
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Citation

Richard Guy Wilson et al., "Dan Kain Trophies, Inc. (Sheff Store Building)", [Arlington, Virginia], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/VA-01-NV14.2.

Print Source

Buildings of Virginia: Tidewater and Piedmont, Richard Guy Wilson and contributors. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, 51-51.

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