Please bear with me for one more post from Iowa. While stopped in the small town of Ventura on the western shores of Clear Lake to get ice cream, we spotted this amazing gymnasium attached to the former high school.
While the original high school building was fine (and utterly ruined with small windows), the later gym was out of this world.
Complete with buttresses and sweeping lines, this is one of the best examples of the Art-Deco I’ve seen in such a utilitarian building.
And it reminds me that small towns once were gifted with just as unique and architecturally wonderful buildings as big cities.
Too bad you didn’t get a chance to see inside!
It always kills me how we as a society can’t be bothered to make anything nice anymore unless it’s some huge marquee project, and even those are usually dull boxes.