George Dewey Brown (April 6, 1898 – July 27, 1968) was a 20th-century American architect who designed several historically significant bus stations for

Greyhound Lines Greyhound Lines, Inc. is an American operator of Intercity bus service, intercity bus services. Greyhound operates the largest intercity bus network in the United States, and also operates charter and Amtrak Thruway services, as well as interci ...

, including the

Greyhound Bus Depot (Columbia, South Carolina) The Greyhound Bus Depot is a former Greyhound Lines intercity bus station in Columbia, South Carolina. It is at 1220 Blanding Street in downtown Columbia. The depot was named to the National Register of Historic Places on December 28, 1989. After ...

and the

Atlantic Greyhound Bus Terminal The Atlantic Greyhound Bus Terminal, at 109 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. in Savannah, Georgia was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. It was designed by architect George D. Brown in Streamline Moderne Streamline Moder ...

station in

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. Both of these stations are listed on the

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for their architecture.

Biography

Brown was born in 1898 in

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, the son of Irish immigrant James Brown, a blacksmith, and Mary Kemerer Brown. Practicing in

Charleston, West Virginia Charleston () is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in West Virginia, most populous city of the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is the county seat of Kanawha County, West Virginia, Kanawha County and ...

, he designed stations in the

Streamline Moderne Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by Aerodynamics, aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. In indu ...

style. He also designed the Greyhound station for state capitols in Charleston, West Virginia and on 412 E. Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia. He died in Charleston, West Virginia, in 1968.

Streamline Moderne buildings designed by George D. Brown

Image:Greyhound Station Columbia SC LOC 570829cu.jpg,

Image:NORTHWEST (FRONT) FACADE, NEON SIGN, EVENING VIEW, LOOKING NORTH - Greyhound Bus Station, 1200 Blanding Street, Columbia, Richland County, SC HABS SC,40-COLUM,16-6.tif, Neon sign detail, Columbia, South Carolina Image:NORTHWEST (FRONT) FACADE, LOOKING NORTH - Greyhound Bus Station, 1200 Blanding Street, Columbia, Richland County, SC HABS SC,40-COLUM,16-4.tif, Northwest Facade, Columbia Greyhound Station Image:Atlantic Greyhound Bus Terminal, Savannah, GA, US.jpg, Greyhound Bus Station Atlantic Greyhound Bus Station,

Image:Greyhound_Bus_Station,_Portsmouth_Ohio,_c._1940.png, Greyhound Bus Station, Portsmouth Ohio (demolished) Image:ELEVATIONS- FRONT AND SIDE, AND PERSPECTIVE - Greyhound Bus Depot, 1129-1135 Gallia Street, Portsmouth, Scioto County, OH HABS OHIO,73-PORT,8-3.tif, Greyhound Bus Station, Drawings,

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,
Additional drawings, Library of Congress
Image:Greyhound_Charleston_WV_1940s_postcard.png, Greyhound station Charleston, West Virginia, c.1940 Image:New Greyhound Bus Station at Charleston, W. Va (83150).jpg, Greyhound Bus Station at Charleston, W. Va, side view Image:Streamline Moderne-style Greyhound Bus Station in Huntington, West Virginia LCCN2015631799.tif, Greyhound Station

Huntington, West Virginia Huntington is a city in Cabell County, West Virginia, Cabell and Wayne County, West Virginia, Wayne counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The County seat, seat of Cabell County, the city is located at the confluence of the Ohio River, O ...

Interior views

References

1898 births 1968 deaths Architects from Charleston, West Virginia Art Deco architects Streamline Moderne architects 20th-century American architects People from Mercer County, Pennsylvania American people of Irish descent {{US-architect-19C-stub