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Tag Archives: Streamline Moderne

John Parmelee’s Fire-Safe Streamlined Model Home

25 Nov

In the 1930s, architect John H. Parmelee introduced “fire-safe” houses to Nashville. Constructed of masonry, these dwellings were often designed with modernist features such as flat concrete roofs, concrete structural systems, metal frame windows, tile floors, and stucco walls. Completed … Read More »

Concrete, John Parmelee, Modernist architecture, Nashville, Streamline Moderne, Tennessee

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