Ethereum

Highrise #28

Collection

Highrises

Description

**Hills Building** **Art by:** Chris Hytha **Story by:** Mark Houser Springing from the crest of this tower, a lone gargoyle seems poised to strike at unsuspecting worshipers at the church on the opposite corner. One wonders if Clarence Hills, the real estate broker who commissioned and named the highrise, intended some sort of statement. The building’s designer, Melvin King, swept floors as an apprentice for prominent Syracuse architect Archimedes Russell until securing paid employment. He ultimately became partner, was lead designer of the nearby 1906 Beaux-Arts county courthouse, and went on to create a gleaming Art Deco tour-de-force five blocks away, the Niagara Hudson Building. King eventually turned the business over to his son and nephew; King & King is now New York’s oldest continuously operating architectural firm. Carved ornamental columns in the Hills Building’s granite base attractively frame its entrance arch. A small but elegant lobby features gilded beams and ribs supporting a vaulted ceiling, ornamental grapevine crown molding, terrazzo floors, and contrasting marble in mottled beige and streaked ebony.

Traits

Style

Gothic

Style

Art Deco

City

Syracuse

Region

Northeast

Decade

1920s

Height

Under 200'

Attributes

Statue

Attributes

Figures

Attributes

Antenna

Token

Contract: 0x516D...b5d2
Token ID: 27

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