Van Antwerp Building
The building, an example of Beaux-Arts architecture, was designed by architect George Bigelow Rogers for Garet Van Antwerp, a wealthy Mobile druggist. The tower was built to house his pharmacy store, with other offices on the upper floors. It remained in operation on the building's ground floor until the 1960s.
The Van Antwerp Building was purchased by the Retirement Systems of Alabama in 2013. It was unoccupied except for a first-floor restaurant, and the building was deteriorating and in bad repair. It was completely restored and enlarged from 2014 through 2016, including historical restoration of the terracotta exterior, reinstalling the decorative cornice (removed in the 1950s), new windows, structural repairs, first floor historical renovation, and new MEP systems. The building was brought up to all current building and life safety codes. The Van Antwerp Building is now a fully operational, completely occupied office building in the heart of downtown Mobile.
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References
- ^ "Van Antwerp Building". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on January 10, 2013. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ "Van Antwerp Building". SkyscraperPage.com. Retrieved 2009-07-14.