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The Aztec Hotel is a historical landmark building in Monrovia, in the San Gabriel Valley, California. The hotel is an example of Mayan Revival architecture still in existence. It was designed by architect Robert Stacy-Judd, and built on U.S. Route 66 in 1925-26. [2] The hotel opened to the public in September 1925, and contained over 40 rooms. [3]
Robert Stacy-Judd (1884–1975) was an English architect and author who designed theaters, hotels, and other commercial buildings in the Mayan Revival architecture Style in Great Britain and the United States. Stacy-Judd's synthesis of the style used Maya architecture, Aztec architecture, and Art Deco precedents as his influences.
Likely the most publicized example of Mayan Revival was Robert Stacy-Judd's Aztec Hotel of 1924–1925. Its façade, interiors and furniture incorporated abstract patterns inspired by the Maya script with Art Deco influences, and it was built on the original U.S. Route 66 in Monrovia, California.
Lafferty received a patent for his Zoomorphic Architecture in 1882. U.S. patent 268,503. At 122 feet (37 m) tall, the Coney Island Elephant was approximately twice the dimensions of Lucy the Elephant, which had pre-dated it by four years; with the exception of the designs of their respective howdahs and the numbers and relative sizes of the windows, externally it was a nearly exact scaled-up ...
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The Brass Elephant was a restaurant in the Mount Vernon neighborhood in Baltimore. It opened in the early 1980s, and closed in 2009 due to financial hardship. [1]
Ahead of 'The White Lotus' season 3 premiere on Max, Nest New York just dropped an official candle designed to smell like the show's luxury hotel setting.
The Elephant Gate entrance at Carlsberg Brewery in Copenhagen, Denmark decorated with the company's early swastika logo. The Danish brewery company Carlsberg Group used the swastika as a logo [11] from the 19th century until the middle of the 1930s, when it was discontinued because of association with the Nazi Party in neighbouring Germany.