15 Jun theodore karl’s 1872 brick and joliet limestone post-fire chicago commerical building dies a slow death
a slow and painful death.
latest image of the post-fire chicago italianate style three-story masonry mixed-use commercial building (1872), located at the southwest corner of wells and superior streets, chicago, ills.
the three-story brick building (the superior side has four floors with the top floor likely added in the mid to late-1870s), with a largely intact original and distinctive street level cast iron arched and fluted colonnade, accentuated with unadorned faceted keystones between the spandrels, and lemont or joliet limestone window hoods and sills on the upper floors, was constructed in the early months of 1872 for brewer conrad siepp where it was likely built on the pre-fire foundation using recycled or salvaged brick from the fire.
