AA-2026-DF6008
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Someone in the 1950s stood in a tropical courtyard before a stucco building with Moorish-arched doorways and ran up at least two flags, which was the decade's standard way of announcing that whatever was happening here was Official. The Mediterranean Revival architecture — arched entries, rendered walls, palms pressing in from every side — places this squarely in Florida or the Caribbean, where that style swept through in the 1920s boom and outlasted the bust with all its aspirations intact. Two figures linger near the entrance in the kind of patient, purposeful posture that suggests they are either waiting to be received or have just finished being received, both of which were taken very seriously in an era when arriving at a public building still carried a certain ceremony. The flags are the real tell: somebody wanted it known that this courtyard, on this day, was a place where something that mattered was being transacted, and they believed the flags would accomplish that.
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Arched Stucco Building with Flags, Tropical Courtyard, 1950s. 1950–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-DF6008. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/arched-stucco-building-with-flags-tropical-courtyard-1950s.
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title = {Arched Stucco Building with Flags, Tropical Courtyard, 1950s},
year = {1950–1959},
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note = {Accession AA-2026-DF6008},
url = {https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/arched-stucco-building-with-flags-tropical-courtyard-1950s}
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