Arts and Antiques with Dr. Lori

Big Plays on Display at the Pro Football Hall of Fame

For those that love the game, they can see football’s ongoing history at the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

If you like vintage architecture from the 1960s, you’ll like the surroundings of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. The building was ultra-modern in its day with its interior spiral ramp (like the one designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Guggenheim Museum in New York City), glass curtain wall (a nod to the urban architecture of Mies van der Rohe) and football inspired roofline indicative of the mid-century modern style of American architecture. Canton, Ohio was chosen as the site for the Hall of Fame for many reasons. However, we focus on football’s legacy there as opposed to some other locale because of the Native American athlete named Jim Thorpe who signed a football contract there.   Thorpe, the star of the 1912 Olympic …

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