curved wall

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  • I am looking for information about the Archecture design of the Silver Spring Shopping center in Silver Spring, MD. Someone told me that there is a historic curved wall at the shopping center possibility which was the back wall of a barber shop. The Barber shop may have had the name the Silver Barber shop. Does anyone know anything about this ?


  • Hello stephenh: Thanks for the interesting question! I was able to find some information about history and the architecture of the Silver Spring Shopping Centre. First, have a look at: Siver Spring - Then & Again URL: http://www.silverspringvoice.com/archives/copy/2004/04/features_thenAgain.html Quote: "Constructed as part of architect John Eberson?s 1938 Silver Spring Shopping Center and Silver Theatre complex, Gulf Oil was designed to match the rest of the Eberson?s complex. A base of dark brick, estimated to be about three feet high, reproduced the look of the dark composition stone base used on the shopping center fa ade. The four remaining five-course sections of light brick, separated by three single-courses of dark brick, emulated the appearance of the shopping center?s limestone fa ade with inset granite bands. The bricks used in the construction of the service station were probably the same as those used to construct the exterior auditorium walls of the Silver Theatre and its distinctive 'skyscraper' chimney, wide courses of a pale yellow brick separated by narrow courses of black glazed brick." Reading further along in this article, you see listed among the original tenants of the Shopping Centre: "Silver Barber Shop, Warner Brothers? Silver Theatre, and Alexander Jewelry and Gift Store (American Film Institute)." Further information about the type of architecture used can be found at: Silver Theatre URL: http://www.adsw.org/site/MD/SilverSpring/ColesvilleRd/8619/ Quote: " The centerpiece of Silver Spring's Art Deco commercial architecture is the 1938 Silver Theatre and Silver Spring Shopping Center complex at the corner of Georgia Avenue and Colesville Road. Designed by world-renowned theater architect John Eberson and developed at the height of the New Deal by the Treasurer of the United States, William Alexander Julian, a friend of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the theater-shopping center complex combined a cinema from Hollywood's golden age with a motor-age shopping center designed for easy access by automobiles." The majority of information available centers around the theatre; I could find no further mention of the Silver Barber Shop. The following articles speak of the curved walls of the theatre: Silver Threads URL: http://www.afi.com/silver/new/nowplaying/preview/archive/4_11_5_8_03.pdf Quote: "John Eberson, who in 1938 was the leading champion of the atmospheric style of theatre design?a genre intended to ?transport? the audience to a more exotic locale?chose the curved shape of an ocean liner as the most compelling atmospheric design for Silver Spring?s regional theatre-goers" Inside the Silver Theatre URL: http://www.homestead.com/silverspringhistory/inside.html It is quite possible that the curved walls of the barber shop came from the same architectural style of motif that was used in the theatre. I have no proof of this, but is it possible that a curved wall of the theatre had the barber shop on their opposite side? Search Strategy (on Google): * "silver spring" "curved wall" mall OR shopping * "silver spring" "silver barber shop" * curved Silver Spring Shopping Center John Eberson * Silver Spring Historical Society I hope this information is of help. websearcher







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