Salvation Army Markle Residence

 residence hall, Art Deco (architecture)

197-foot, 17-story Art-Deco residential building completed in 1929. Designed by Voorhees, Gmelin & Walker for the Salvation Army as an international residence for business and professional women, graduate and undergraduate college students.

The building has a smooth limestone base with stone columns at the center portion extending up to a parapet above the 4th floor. The facade is clad in beige brick, with a recessed center portion flanked by two wings, each with two prominent setbacks. There is a central entrance with metal-framed glass double-doors below a rounded, red canvas canopy extending out over the sidewalk. At each end is a secondary entrance.

The middle portion of the lower floors has five bays of single-windows, with the set-back upper floors having seven bays in the middle section. The flanking wings both have two bays of single-windows, with setbacks above the 10th & 12th floors.

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