28 Feb post-fire chicago brick workers cottage with rare “artificial stone” exterior ornament faces demolition
an amazingly intact and well-maintained post-fire brick workers cottage with original fret-sawn bracketed pine wood cornice, oculus, and frear or ransom’s artificial stone incised window hoods with centrally located ornamental keystones, will be destroyed in the next week. the address is 1938 n. mohawk street.
the generously proportioned arch top two-over-two painted pine wood windows appear to be original. the raised wood panel door jamb is original, but the two entrance doors were no doubt added later. the cast iron newels, likely fabricated by the dearborn foundry, were added in the 1880’s.
finally, i managed to pinpoint one of the home’s occupants in an 1876 lakeside directory, a bookkeeper named william l. lindsay.
all images courtesy of eric j. nordstrom.
further reading:
POST-FIRE CHICAGO ITALIANATE ON ORCHARD STREET REDUCED TO RUBBLE
FIVE HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT PRE-AND-POST GREAT CHICAGO FIRE BUILDING KEYSTONES
VALDEMAR MORTONSEN TWO-STORY BRICK COTTAGE THREATENED WITH DEMOLITION
A CLOSER LOOK AT GEORGE FREAR’S PATENTED PRE-CHICAGO FIRE ARTIFICIAL ITALIANATE ROW HOUSE KEYSTONES
POST-FIRE OSBORNE & ADAMS LAKE STREET LOFT BUILDING LIVES ON THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHS AND FRAGMENTS
ANALYSIS OF POST-FIRE STONE USED TO REBUILD STRUCTURES WITHIN THE “BURNT DISTRICT”
A PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF CHICAGO’S POST-FIRE EXTANT RESIDENTIAL AND BUILDING FACADE ORNAMENTAL KEYSTONES
IN THE WAKE OF THE OSBORNE & ADAMS DEMOLITION, HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BUILDING ILLUMINATED BY ITS ARCHITECT
BLDG. 51 MUSEUM ACQUIRES AN INTACT POST FIRE “ARTIFICIAL STONE” WINDOW KEYSTONE FROM THE OSBORNE AND ADAMS BUILDING
POST-FIRE OSBORNE & ADAMS COMMERICAL LOFT BUILDING COMING DOWN – FACADE AND ALL
WILL THE POST-FIRE OSBORNE AND ADAMS BUILDING “ARTIFICIAL STONE” FACADE BE SAVED?
