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Springfield Motors Buick Dealership (Springfield, Oregon)

Photographer
Date
  • 1949
Description
  • National Register of Historic Places (Listed, 2011)
View
  • interior: Parts area counters. View from the service area, beyond are the garage door for the showroom and the windows for the office spaces
View Date
  • 2010
Temporal
  • 1940-1949
MODS Note
  • The Springfield Motors Buick Dealership was recently listed in the National Register as Springfield’s best and most well-preserved example of Streamline Moderne commercial architecture and for its association with the development of transportation during the post-World War II period. The dealership was the first new automobile franchise built in the city during the postwar era and was designed using pattern books published by Buick and General Motors during the late 1940s. Built by Gustave J. DeVos in 1949 using local materials and labor to help improve the economy in the area, the white stucco building is characterized by a curved corner with large glass windows with an original neon sign with the business name. The building was originally leased long-term to Clarence L. Scherer who managed the dealership, and it remains in the Scherer family today who continues operating it as a Buick dealership.
  • This image was included in the documentation to support a nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Park Service. The image is provided here by the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office and the University of Oregon Libraries to facilitate scholarship, research, and teaching. For other uses, such as publication, contact the State Historic Preservation Office. Please credit the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office when using this image.
Subject
Work Type
Style / Period
Location
Street Address
  • 702 North A Street
Rights Holder
  • Oregon State Historic Preservation Office
Identifier
  • pna_23155
Source
Provenance
  • Design Library, University of Oregon Libraries
Citation
Institution
Submission Date
  • 04/27/2015
Modified
  • 08/12/2022
Collections

APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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Wiki

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Data Sources
Footer Number Term External URI
Fuenmayor, Ernestina http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/creator/FuenmayorErnestina
Architecture, American http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006700
Architecture--United States http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85006693
4 office buildings http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300007043
5 No label found http://opaquenamespace.org/ns/workType/roomsandspaces
6 architecture (object genre) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300263552
7 interior views http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300124520
8 automobile showrooms http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300105654
9 views (visual works) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300015424
10 showrooms http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300004331
11 commercial buildings http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300005147
12 rooms (interior spaces) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300004044
13 built works http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300265418
14 Art Deco http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300021426
15 Springfield >> Lane County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5754005/
16 Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5744337/
17 Lane County >> Oregon >> United States https://sws.geonames.org/5735869/
18 United States https://sws.geonames.org/6252001/
5 University of Oregon http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80126183

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