808 LOBBY DETAILS

I wonder if this is the only record of this place.

The offices were noted for one detail: fireplaces. In 1998 it was perhaps the last office building in the city core with fireplaces, and the surviving tenant - a law firm - held on until the last minute. Can't blame them.
     
  Inset of the stylized foliage popular in the era - primordial fronds.
     
  No one fought to save the 808 - you have to pick your battles, and this was a losing one. Too bad. I discovered this lobby just a month before it came down, and it felt like discovering some mute aged silent-movie star in a nursing home just before she died. 
     
 

This is the hallway to the street. Play your own Citizen Kane scene.

Now, back to the destruction of the Conservatory.