latest demolition images of flizikowski and kaiser's german evangelical lutheran church (1896), located at 2028 north richmond street, chicago, il. within the next week or two, the church building and adjoining shool will be reduced to rubble and trucked to the landfill. thankfully, the church will...
gargantuan salesman sample. bdg. 51 museum secures historically important oversized lincoln memorial building (1909) polychromatic glazed terra cotta panel sculpted by kristian schneider for the american terra cotta company, crystal lake, il. the hand-applied polychromatic glazed terra cotta panel was created as a promotional tool (displayed in...
additional images taken during removal of historically important church bell from flizikowski and kaiser’s german evangelical lutheran church (1896), located at 2028 north richmond street, chicago, il. the previous blog contains the majority of images and additional information. courtesy of eric j. nordstrom and the...
sequential photo-documentation of lightly embossed bronze church bell extraction from flizikowski and kaiser's german evangelical lutheran church (1896), located at 2028 north richmond street, chicago, il. the swift removal of the bell - comprised of flanking cast iron a-frame bases or stands, yoke, clapper and bent...
mostly iphone interior and exterior images of bruce goff's sam and ruth van sickle ford house (1949), located at 404 s. edgelawn drive, aurora, il. thanks to sid robinson for the hospitality and lively disucussion as always. the sam and ruth van sickle ford house in aurora,...
photographic survey of church bell before it's extraction from flizikowski and kaiser's german evangelical lutheran church (1896). the 1896 solid bronze bell is intact - comprised of flanking cast iron a-frame bases or stands, yoke, clapper and bent wood wheel with a single sheave (original rope...
the destruction of german evangelical lutheran church (1896), located at 2028 north richmond street, chicago, il., is moving at a swift pace, with facade and opposing towers (the north houses the church bell) still standing, but not for long. thankfully,...
it was nice to see architectural ornament salvaged by me land at the art institute. the majority of the images however, doument the reconfigured "fragments of chicago's past exhibit," mounted opposite the hartwell memorial tiffany window (1917) within the skylit henry crown gallery. ...
spacetime curvature grid. recent photographic survey of helmet jahn's 40th floor conference room, located on the top floor of giaver and dinkelberg's 40-story jewelers building (1927), located at 35 east wacker drive, chicago, il. a future post will feature images and video of the fully functional original...
salvage operation in progress. updates with information on church history to follow. image gallery below includes documentation of time capsule eextraction along with exterior and interior images of church during beginning phase of demolition (i.e., the church building itself as adjoining school was demolished last week). the...
detailed photographic survey of giaver and dinkelberg's 1927-28 jewelers building lobby ornament as documented by eric j. nordstrom for building owner prime group. ...
raw and unedited 2016 images of "the vault" in the basement of burnham and root's rookery building, located at 209 south lasalle street, chicago, il. i can't recall if this was a public exhibit or perhaps a feature of open house chicago. the vault contained bits...
over the past twenty years i've seen one architectural salvage store after another close for one reason or another. each and every time i receive word that a shop folds, i'm both angry and sad, with the worst being jan's antiques in fulton market....
unedited 2008 interior salvage images of d.h. burnham and company's 21-story continental and commercial national bank building (1914), located at 208 south lasalle street, chicago, il. as i continue to stitch together bits and pieces of prior salvage experiences i often fall victim to a dense...
raw and unedited images of congress theater's attic, taken in the winter of 2017. the shuttered 2900-seat fridstein and company theater building (1926) is located at 2135 north milwaukee avenue, chicago, il. ...
exterior images of walter burley griffin's prairie style limestone and brick cornell store and flats (1908), located at 1230-32 e. 75th street, chicago, il. the cornell store and flats was designed by architect walter burley griffin, that has been vacant since 2014 and is considered an...
revisting william phillip doerr's jeffery theater (1923) lobby as it appeared in 2014: Historical analysis: AI has likely been used to research and summarize information about the theater's history, architecture, and its impact on the South Shore neighborhood. Entertainment industry analysis: AI is fundamentally changing the live...
a collection of original and historially important late 19th and early 20th century 8 x 10 glass plate negatives of seldom seen interior views of both northwestern terra cotta company and the american terra cotta company modeling rooms featuring sullivanesque style building ornament - both...
note: any and all images in this post are raw and unedited and will be left that way. posted on december 14, 2015: as the year comes to a close i look back in amazement at the amount of disruption and damage done by demolitions of late...
raw and unedited demolition images of john voltz hall (1881), located at 800 north wells street, chicago, il. john voltz came to chicago with a wave of germanic immigrants during the 1850's and 1860's. voltz was an entrepreneur and nearly a decade after the great fire...