The Mullen Home for Nurses was built in 1936, designed by
the great Temple Buell. It is a strong vertically oriented Art Deco design.

It is similar to two other surviving Art Deco masterpieces Buell also designed, the Horace Mann High School, which also has similar brickwork. . .

. . .and the other is The Paramount Theatre, where decorative elements are created from terracotta, instead of brick.

Click on this photo above and look at the brickwork. How do you design that on paper? How do you communicate those designs to the bricklayer?

And this entry way below. . . it is just staggering.

Mullen Home for Nurses