07 Mar latest additions to the ever-growing bldg. 51 museum and sister organization chicago architectural ornament archive

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the following acquisitions (see images below), in the form of architectural building fragments, photographic images, and, miscellaneous ephemera, represent a fraction of historically important materials added to the bldg. 51 museum and its sister organization, with the latter focusing on architectural ornament and ephemera from the first chicago school (website for this archive will be launched in the summer of 2019).

when time permits, detailed captions will be assigned to every item added to the blog as well as the new site. while the majority of materials belong to the bldg. 51 museum, i’ve included images of ornament and photographs sourced from the collection of eric j. nordstrom.

additional collections from public institutions are currently being digitized and will be added in the near future. taken together, i hope to make any and all of this material (photographic form in the first phase) available to architectural historians, scholars, students, institutions, and architects.