Victorian Ornament

We derived the ornamental detail over the boxes from high-resolution photographs of the restored Southern Theatre in Columbus Ohio (1896), and buildings by the nineteenth-century American architect Louis Sullivan. We altered the colors of the photographs to fit the scheme described in a newspaper description of the Union Square Theatre as renovated in 1893: “In the auditorium, the entire proscenium arch and frame is richly finished in cream and gold" (New York Herald, 18 Sept., 1893).

Detail of the Virtual Vaudeville UST reconstruction (above the house-right box):

Source images from the Southern Theatre:

Source images from Louis Sullivan's Carson Pirie Scott Store, Chicago, 1898, and the Wainwright Tomb, St. Louis (1892-93):

See also box crown, portraits, house wall and molding.