Detail of Niagara Mohawk Building, Syracuse, New York.

Detail of Niagara Mohawk Building sculpture, Syracuse, New York.

This has nothing to do with Tokyo, but I came across my old photos of the Niagara Mohawk Power Building and figured I’d share. This 1932 masterpiece is probably my favorite art deco building, perhaps because its location in Syracuse, New York is decidedly more obscure than, say, the Chrysler Building’s.

Read more on Wikipedia.

• (now a National Grid building)
• 300 Erie Blvd W, Syracuse, NY (Google Maps)
• (315) 474-1511
• https://www.nationalgridus.com/Default

Other sites of interest in the USA:

• The Hoover Dam
• Taliesin West, then Denny’s
• Hipsters in paradise (Detroit, 2013)
• General Mills, Minneapolis
• Dark storms and oils trains of southwestern Minnesota
• When beer was made by kings, or, beer barons of the upper midwest