21 Feb

Posted at 15:07h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Salvages by

by eric j. nordstrom and ornament chicago [caption id="attachment_35763" align="alignleft" width="1200"] the last series of images chronicling the demolition of clarence hatzfeld's south side masonic temple (1921).[/caption] [caption id="attachment_35766" align="alignleft" width="1200"] south entrance partially covered in snow.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_35765" align="alignleft" width="1200"] machines at rest after chicago snowstorm.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_35764"...

20 Feb

Posted at 20:27h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

spending countless hours over the past several months digitizing and disseminating  john vinci and tim samuelson's historically important chicago architectural objects and ephemera, along with restructuring my architectural fragment museum in preparation for moving it to a storefront accessible to the public, has been immensely...

16 Feb

Posted at 21:29h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

[caption id="attachment_35691" align="alignleft" width="917"] photo courtesy of the richard nickel archive and chicago art institute.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_35692" align="alignleft" width="1767"] photo courtesy of the richard nickel archive and chicago art institute.[/caption] one of the most important objectives this year is to begin the arduous process of navigating...

10 Feb

Posted at 01:27h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Salvages by

by eric j. nordstrom & ornament chicago very little remains of south side masonic temple (1921). a few riveted joint steel trusses and columns, partially covered with chunks of dangling concrete, will be pulled apart with the wrecker's long reach excavator this week.  remnants of a grand...

08 Feb

Posted at 01:50h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions by

i finally had time to shoot these two artifacts unearthed from a downtown chicago dump a while back. the 1860's hutchinson "ring top" bottle was found 15 feet below grade. the single-sided porcelain enameled depression era chicago sign, dug from the same location, was found...

06 Feb

Posted at 23:06h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

i've devoted a few hours nearly every evening (beginning in late fall) digitizing the archives of both john vinci and tim samuelson as a countermeasure to battle the onset of burnout from non-stop documentation of architectural ornament adorning historically important buildings across the city. viewing chicago's...

02 Feb

Posted at 16:43h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Salvages by

by eric j. nordstrom and ornament chicago built as the bethel norwegian danish methodist episcopal church in 1905, the ingleside community church of the nazarene was demolished this week by heneghan wrecking. through a collective effort yesterday afternoon, the dated bedford limestone cornerstone and diminutive lithographed...

01 Feb

Posted at 20:44h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Salvages by

  the following images are part of my ongoing efforts to digitize what i've dubbed "the john vinci artifact and photographic archive." given my limited bandwidth, i'm posting images now with the hopes of returning to fill in badly needed contextual information to offer greater insight and/or...

29 Jan

Posted at 22:44h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, Salvages by

the former humboldt garage & auto service company building (1911) had a walk-in vault. shortly before that section of the building was demolished, the wreckers managed to open the door, where they discovered several ledgers, signs, salesman samples, blueprints, and other odds and ends left...

25 Jan

Posted at 15:53h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Salvages by

by eric j. nordstrom & ornament chicago ongoing destruction of the south side masonic temple (1921) has greatly disfigured the building.  it's mesmerizing to watch the wrecking ball repeatedly being dropped on the indiana limestone along the north facade, while at the same, bearing witness to...

24 Jan

Posted at 15:23h in Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

the following gallery offers a glimpse at the most recent american architectural, medical, and industrial artifacts and/or miscellaneous objects added to our ever-expanding urban remains virtual catalog (over 35,000 catalog listings to date). the newly acquired items have been documented, cleaned/refinished (if need be) and...

17 Jan

Posted at 16:52h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

between 1881 and 1895 louis henry sullivan and engineer dankmar adler designed a series of office towers, including the chicago stock exchange building (extant from 1894 to 1972), their largest building and perhaps most important commission. noteworthy for the firm's inspired solution to...

15 Jan

Posted at 03:48h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Salvages by

by eric j. nordstrom and ornament chicago i finally made time to edit more images of chicago's south side masonic temple (1921) demolition. the six-story structural steel and reinforced concrete frame structure with red face brick and carved bedford limestone facade was designed by chicago architect...

12 Jan

Posted at 23:04h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

three sections of cove molding were salvaged from albert sullivan's residence (1891) shortly before or during the house was deconstructed/demolished in 1970 (portions of the facade were removed by richard nickel and his brother donald for southern illinois university with the hope that the facade...

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