Doorplate from the Guaranty Building
Classification
metalwork
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Roger G. Kennedy
Accession Number
1979-77-9
About this artwork
Upright, roughly rectangular form with curved edges at top and bottom; cast decoration of stylized vegetal motifs, the word GUARANTY (for the Guaranty Building, Buffalo, NY (1896, Adler and Sullivan, architects) in oval worked into decoration at top; circular hole for doorknob slightly above center; a small screw hole near each corner.