Frederic Hamilton Building, Denver Art Museum, Civic Center Cultural Complex

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The Frederic Hamilton building is a 2006 extension of the Denver Art Museum located within the Civic Center Cultural Complex.
Date: 2006
Creator: Libeskind, Daniel
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Frederic Hamilton Building, Denver Art Museum, Civic Center Cultural Complex

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The entrance and spider sculpture are on the eastern side of the building.
Date: 2006
Creator: Libeskind, Daniel
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Frederic Hamilton Building, Denver Art Museum, Civic Center Cultural Complex

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The northeastern prisms soar high above the entrance.
Date: 2006
Creator: Libeskind, Daniel
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Frederic Hamilton Building, Denver Art Museum, Civic Center Cultural Complex

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The northern prow of Libeskind's building points toward Gio Ponti's north building.
Date: 2006
Creator: Libeskind, Daniel
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Frederic Hamilton Building, Denver Art Museum, Civic Center Cultural Complex

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The south side of the Frederic Hamilton building sits in front of the high-rise Republic Building.
Date: 2006
Creator: Libeskind, Daniel
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Frederic Hamilton Building, Denver Art Museum, Civic Center Cultural Complex

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The prow of the building juts eastward.
Date: 2006
Creator: Libeskind, Daniel
Object Type: Physical Object
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with William J. Alexander, November 11, 2002

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Interview with advertising executive and Navy veteran William J. Alexander. The interview includes Alexander's personal experiences about being a teenager during World War II, being a sailor during the last months of World War II, early youth in Casper, Wyoming, moving back to Denver to be reunited with his parent and employment at the Brown Palace Hotel, wartime rationing, joining the Navy, and boot camp. Additionally, Alexander talks about his close relationship with his older brother, life in Casper during the Great Depression while living with his aunt and uncle, local reactions to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor, vignettes about John Barrymore, Sammy Kaye, Harry James, and Betty Grable, his brother's enlistment in the Navy, his employment at Station KOA in Denver, making broadcast announcements about D-Day, the sinking of his brother's destroyer, the USS Spence, during a typhoon, the effects of his brother's death on him and his parents, V-J Day celebrations in Chicago, his role as director of the base chapel choir at Opa Locka Naval Air Station, and his postwar career.
Date: November 11, 2002
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Alexander, William J.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library