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March 2001


June 2005


The lost Vitrolite lobby - March 2001


November 2006


November 2008

701 N. 11th Street

Hadley Square
Originally: Hadley Dean Glass Company
Architect: Isaac Tayor, 1903; Oscar Enders, 1928 (lobby)

Technically it's not on Washington Avenue, but it's close enough to be worth including. The warehouse building has a massive structural system designed to hold up many tons of stored glass. In 1930, the lobby was remodeled with then-popular Egyptian motifs rendered in glass-like Vitrolite.

Inside and out, this was one of the most refined buildings found around the avenue. It has been very handsomely renovated and maintained in recent years -- until 2004, when the Vitrolite lobby was inexplicably destroyed to make way for restaurant space. The Avenue -- and the city -- has lost one of its most unique spaces.

Links:

  • Ecology of Absence page on Hadley-Dean
  • National Register of Historic Places nomination (PDF file)