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Los Angeles’s monumental Union Station, designed by John and Donald B. Parkinson and completed in 1939, represents the last of the great railroad passenger terminals to be built in the United States. The building also clearly illustrates the architectural transition from Revivalism to Modernism that took place during the 1930s. Despite its familiar if Brobdingnagian tower-and-arcade theme, its severe lines and vast areas of plain wall no longer attempt to emulate authentic Spanish precedents; instead, they recast the style’s essence into a more contemporary Moderne idiom. Such transitional works briefly formed a provocative link between old and new during the late Thirties, before Modernism prevailed and began its forty-year reign over commercial architecture.

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