recent images of henry c. koch's flemish renaissance revival style milwaukee city hall building (1895), located at 200 east wells street, milwaukee, wi. the buff colored terra cotta ornament was executed by the northwestern terra cotta company, chicago, ills. ...
latest acquisition. rare 1909 chicago athletic association building "cherry circle" 19th anniversary gilt edge hardbound special issue (given to officers and club members only) with silver gelatin photographic image of club member charles ffrench (president, director, and manager of the iron and steel publishing company)...
rebuilt chicago in 1873: illustrated. scanned pages (including cover and advertisements) from a recently found and exceptionally rare oversized hardbound book entitled "the merchants and manufacturers of chicago : being a complete history of our mercantile and manufacturing interests, and their progress since the fire :...
out with hoyt, in with london guaranty. original photographic images of the post-fire william hoyt building (1872), located at southwest corner of north michigan and east wacker drive. note the massive 15 x 6 marble fort dearborn memorial plaque or tablet built into the wall of the...
eric j. nordstrom, through his bldg. 51 archive and museum, has been consumed with a project attempting to bridge various local archives in a unified manner, that for the time-being, is translated in the following images accompanied with brief descriptions or narratives identifying the historical...
urban remains and the bldg. 51 musuem are pleased to offer full-scale frank lloyd wright and alfonso iannelli-designed "sprite" or "spindle" heads that were cast from a mold made from a documented original fragmented full-figured sprite undergoing restoration. the limited edition "spindle" head sculptures were...
recent photographic images of frank lloyd wright's a.d. german warehouse (1914), located at 300 south church street, richland center, wi. it was the only building wright ever designed in the town he was born. the warehouse was built between 1917-1920 for local businessman albert dell german of...
early photographic print (note hand-applied retouching) made from william shaw's original glass negative of w.d. kerfoot realty company building (october 1871-june 1872), located at 89 west washington street, chicago, il. the 12 by 16 foot "shanty of boards" was said to be the first "building" erected...
fall 2024 exterior images of kees and colburn's 9-story deere and webber company warehouse (1910), located at 800 n. washington avenue, minneapolis, mn. the cream-colored speckled finish sullivanesque terra cotta was fabricated by the american terra cotta company, chicago, ills. ...
restlessness. chicago buildings are tinkered and toyed with on any given day. and some are just wiped away altogether. tracking and photographically capturing the madness of it all is unbelievably exhausting on both mind and body. very few want to proactively be a witness to...
exterior photographic images - taken in october of 2024 - of walter burley griffin's joshua g. melson house (1912-1914), located at 56 river heights drive, mason city, iowa. the two-story house (also known as "the castle") is comprised mainly of rough-faced limestone, quarried from the site...
merchants national bank in fall of 2024. george grant elmslie's richly colored exterior glazed terra cotta adorning the facade of merchants national bank (1912) located at 102 east third street, winona, mn. the early 20th century bank building was designed by the architectural firm of purcell, feick,...
owatonna in october of 2024. interior and exterior images of louis h. sullivan's national famer's bank (1908), located at 101 n. cedar avenue, owatonna, mn. the richly colored stencils, plaster, art glass, etc., were designed by l.h. sullivan, l. millet and g.g. elmslie. the oversized ornamental cast...
exterior photographic survey of walter burley griffin's reinforced concrete and rusticated limestone james blythe house (1913-14), located at 431 first street se., rock crest-rock glen, mason city, ia. the blythe house is the third house in rock glen and second of three houses commissioned by...
images of frank lloyd wright's taliesin (1911-1959) located at 5607 county road c, spring green, wisc. i included additional images of midway barn (1952), romeo and juliet windmill (1897), surrounding landscape, and joseph lyman silsbee's shingle style unity chapel (1886) and graveyard, located at 6596...
completed photographic study of louis h. sullivan's peoples savings bank (1911) located at 101 3rd avenue, s.w., cedar rapids, ia. i hope to hop on a plane next month to spend a few days photographing william l. steele and purcell and elmslie's 1918 woodbury county courthouse. ...
recent images - taken while visiting grinnell - of the walter burley and marion mahoney griffin prairie style benjamin t. ricker house (1911-12), located at 1510 broad street, grinnell, ia. [caption id="attachment_90336" align="alignleft" width="1365"] GCAC THU_JUN 2002.34[/caption] Benjamin J. Ricker Residence, Grinnell, Iowa 1911 (house designed by...
images of louis sullivan's merchant's national bank (1914), located at 833 4th avenue, grinnell, ia. the winged lions are comprised of gold patinated cast bronze. the originals, comprised of terra cotta, were smashed by vandals. one lies in pieces in a display case within the bank....
documenting van allen is finally finished. photographic survey of louis h. sullivan's four-story van allen and company department store (1912-14) located at 226 4th ave south, clinton, ia. to achieve a rhythmic balance, sullivan designed false dividers on the main facade to make the width of the...
photographic images (taken last week) of ladehoff and sohn's schall-hutchinson brick and terra cotta candy or confectionary company, located at 501 north second street, clinton iowa. the sullivanesque style polychromed glazed terra cotta was likely fabricated by the midland terra cotta company, chicago, il. the 70...