Substation 235
- Style
- Art Deco
- City
- Manhattan, NY
Substation 235 is an industrial electrical substation built in the Art Deco style, notable for bringing decorative architectural treatment to a purely utilitarian building type. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
the style
The building applies Art Deco detailing to an industrial substation, a pairing that is unusual since infrastructure buildings were rarely given this level of stylistic ornament.
More on Art Decosignificance
Substation 235 is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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