POPULAR: Napier's Art Deco heritage has featured on a Texas website following a freelance writer's visit. PHOTO/FILE
POPULAR: Napier's Art Deco heritage has featured on a Texas website following a freelance writer's visit. PHOTO/FILE
Napier's Art Deco architecture has made headlines in Dallas, Texas after a Canadian travel writer's visit and subsequent travel story was published on the Dallas Morning News website.
The article was spotted by ex Bay man Tony Stroup, who lives in the US city. In it, freelance writer John Leewaxes lyrical about much of Napier's buildings, including the Municipal Theatre, the Masonic Hotel and The Daily Telegraph Building, among others.
Napier is also compared to South Beach, Miami which he wrote was "regarded by many as the world's best-preserved deco community".
"On our walk, I learn to look for the sunbursts, speed lines, geometric leaded windows and nautical moderne flourishes that line the downtown core," the article states. "Among entire streets of beautifully preserved buildings, some landmarks stand out as camera-hogging superstars."
The National Tobacco Company building is the focus of particularly high praise. "Behind its sunburst-carved double doors, the ostentatious interior is an achingly beautiful melange of marble, polished wood and a stained-glass dome ceiling."
Hastings also gets a mention, as does its newly established Hastings City Night Market.
"I spend a couple of hours squeezing between the friendly crowds, perusing the crafty trinkets and licking my lips at a barbecued lamb shank stand and a stall selling fresh-baked 'homemade Twinkies'," Mr Lee wrote.
