The Grojean Building 1920's.blend

  • April 13, 2013
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  • Blender 2.6x
  • Render: Blender Internal
  • Creator: reidh
  • License: CC-0
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Description:

The Grojean Building, 360 West State Street, Jacksonville, illinois

The Grojean Building is a three story limestone stone building dating from the middle of the nineteenth century. In the 1920's, the storefront was changed with the installation of Art Deco-patterned glass in the transom area and a deep, arched display area.The building was again modernized in the postwar era when the transoms were covered with a rectilinear sign panel and them again in the 1970's when the City of Jacksonville constructed a brick and aluminum architectural canopy all around the square. Those canopies are currently being removed, which allowed owner Tom Grojean to restore the building's lower floors in 2002. The exterior restoration returned the elegance of one of the finest Art Deco facades in the state of Illinois.

More information about upper story redevelopment can be found at: http://www.illinoishistory.gov/ps/upperstory.htm. For more information about the Grojean Building renovation see: http://www.illinoishistory.gov/ps/studies.htm

Illinoise art deco old building

Comments:

  • reidh profile picture
    reidh

    See here for PDF and Info

    Written April 13, 2013
  • reidh profile picture
    reidh

    http://www.illinoishistory.gov/ps/construct_mainstreet_grojean.htm

    Written April 13, 2013
  • reidh profile picture
    reidh

    Its so large 22MB because the textures are all pact. Unpack and its only 3MB

    Written April 13, 2013
  • FayZee profile picture
    FayZee

    it's lovely to have living history recorded in Blender. Thanks for sharing. The photograph shows a different colour scheme, so from what period is your model?

    I love the super clear paper model instructions on the government site. Did you have anything to do with that?

    Written April 13, 2013
  • reidh profile picture
    reidh

    The textures and the choice of buildings are all of the Sites choosing. I found the site by Google searching for Paper Models. If you do so you will see the Plethora of Objects that there are. I don't really know the license on these textures, but they are free to print out and build in card stock, and I think the Lincoln or Illinois site might be flattered to see there efforts being converted to 3D modeling examples and uses. I will take some credit for realizing that paper modeling is a huge fad and that the textures used are highly detailed in many cases, and lend them selves perfectly to UV mapping in Blender. I again must take this opportunity to Give glory to Blender for its incredibly intuitive UI. I took classes in school in use of Maya and 3DS Max and find Blender to be EZ comparatively. And It Works faithfully without expensive sensitivity and impossibility of learning quickly.

    Written April 14, 2013
  • Duion profile picture
    Duion

    Work of the US-goverment generally is in the public domain, but not always http://www.publicdomainsherpa.com/us-government-works.html

    Written April 14, 2013