16 Dec latest images from continued exterior restoration work on howell and hood’s chicago tribune tower
latest photographic images from ongoing restoration of howells and hood’s bedford limestone tribune tower (1925) and cornerstone extraction of incised limestone cornerstone with time capsule from jarvis hunt’s printing plant (1929). the majority of the images focus on capturing tradesmen restoring the tower’s bedford limestone from their swing stages hanging off the facade like spiders in a web.
previous images focused on tracking progress of the partial demolition of hunt’s 1929 printing plant with detailed shots of the exposed steel skeletal framing (e.g., riveted joint steel columns and beams) originally supplied by the american bridge company in gary, indiana. through repeated visits, i’ve noticed the gradual erasure and/or reconstruction of the building that once housed the gargantuan printing presses. little by little its skeletal remains appear to be destroyed and discarded. when i last visited what remained of the plant, workers were extracting the corner stone replete with a the single cavity for housing time capsule.
all photographs by eric j. nordstrom unless otherwise noted.
