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Taxi School Service Garage

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c. 1938. Northeast corner of 6th and Boone streets
  • Taxi School Service Garage (David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim)

The centerpiece of this Streamline Moderne garage is a composition in cast stone of three shafts that plunge up and over the parapet and are then contained by a horizontal curved form. The larger of the garage doors is contained within an L-shaped decorative pattern of variously colored brick.

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David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim
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David Gebhard and Gerald Mansheim, "Taxi School Service Garage", [Boone, Iowa], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/IA-01-CE032.

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