78-80 Rutland Street, Leicester
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78-80 Rutland Street, Leicester
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 24 Aug 2011
Former leather warehouse of 1922-23 by Fosbrooke & Bedingfield for Pfister & Vogel "and reputed to be a replica of the firm's headquarters in Philadephia". The details are, I think, an idiosyncratic mixture of Gothic, Art Deco and Art Nouveau (Image]). It has a concrete frame. Grade II listed.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.635932
Longitude
-1.127107
