IV Gallery of Early Concrete Masonry Buildings

IV

G a l l e r y o f E a r l y C o n c r e t e M a s o n r y B u i l d i n g s

Concrete block was sadly and generally regarded as a fine material underground or as back-up for some other facing in the first few decades of its life in North America. But even during those years, there were visionaries in the fields of architecture and building who saw concrete block as much more than that—and who had the courage to convert their convictions to tangible form.

Pictured on the following pages are a cross-section of the works of a few of these pioneers—along with some of the more conventional uses of concrete block prior to World War II.