{"id":202,"date":"2012-07-18T19:24:57","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T19:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/?page_id=202"},"modified":"2022-08-09T15:36:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T15:36:02","slug":"stop-2-united-life-building-119-w-iron-ave","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/?page_id=202","title":{"rendered":"Stop #2: United Life Building, 119 W. Iron Ave."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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United Life Building – Beauty and Function<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thoroughly modern, the 10-story United Life Building opened its doors on January 2, 1930. Local architect, Charles Shaver, designed this Art Deco building for the United Life Insurance Company. Shaver, holder of Kansas Architect License #1, followed his personal philosophy \u2014 design beautiful, functional and affordable buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terra cotta tiles and granite grace the north and west fa\u00e7ades. Inside was a vision of arcade walls covered in Carthage marble and terrazzo floors. Functional features included temperature controls for each office, a mail chute connecting every floor and elevators. Over 600,000 bricks were used in the building. All bricks were manufactured in Kansas. The estimated cost was $440,000.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Many a business called the United Building home, including:
\u2022 Architects
\u2022 Attorneys
\u2022 Insurance offices
\u2022 Kennedy and Co. accounting firm
\u2022 Optometrists
\u2022 Physicians and surgeons
\u2022 Reynolds Tobacco Company
\u2022 The Kansas Pipe Line and Gas Company general offices
\u2022 United Life Insurance Company
\u2022 United Realty and Investment Company
\u2022 United Telephone Company
\u2022 Western Union Telegraph<\/p>\n\n\n\n

See more downtown Salina businesses<\/a> by visiting the Salina Downtown website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next stop:<\/b> Cross Iron Ave. at Seventh St. and proceed north to the Cozy Inn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

United Life Building – Beauty and Function Thoroughly modern, the 10-story United Life Building opened its doors on January 2, 1930. Local architect, Charles Shaver, designed this Art Deco building for the United Life Insurance Company. Shaver, holder of Kansas Architect License #1, followed his personal philosophy \u2014 design beautiful, functional and affordable buildings. Terra […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":588,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-202","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/202\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walksalina.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}