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Western Colorado Center for the Arts

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1960s, Robert van Deusen; 1983, Edward Chamberlin. 1803 N. 7th St.

A leading Grand Junction architect redesigned this boxy 1960s concrete building to give it a more sculptural image. Rolling grass berms lap against the walls of the sculpture garden, which has a narrow slit entry. A strip of neon tube at the base of the complex is lit to signify an event in this privately constructed and maintained center that itself is modern art.

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Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
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Thomas J. Noel, "Western Colorado Center for the Arts", [Grand Junction, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-ME11.

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Buildings of Colorado, Thomas J. Noel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 508-508.

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