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decoarchitecture:

Joel W. Solomon Federal Building, Chattanooga, Tennessee
by Wendy Darling

Is this powerful design or what? And they though so in 1938 too — see below.

From Wikipedia:

In 1938 the building was recognized by the American Institute of Architects as one of the 150 finest buildings constructed in the previous twenty years in the United States, and it was featured in an AIA photographic exhibit in America and Europe.