06 Nov

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unique cast bronze and oak wood paperweight fabricated to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the opening of ernest flagg’s singer tower (1897-1908), located at 149 broadway street, new york city, ny. the paperweight is a replica of the building’s bronze window cleaner...

05 Nov

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this month marks the 15th year anniversary of the bld. 51 museum and archive and 10th year anniversay of the publication of the museum's historically important building fragment collection (note: tens of thousands of artifacts have been added to the ever-expanding museum collection since publication...

04 Nov

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a photographic survey of george d. mason and zachariah rice's richardsonian romanesque style first presbyterian church (1889), located at 2930 woodward avenue, detroit, mich.  mason and rice modeled the rusticated cut redstone church after h. h. richardson's trinity church (1872-77) located in boston. when woodward avenue...

03 Nov

Posted at 15:10h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Travel by

cool copshop revisited in october, 2025. exterior images of edward c. van leyen’s beax-arts style three-story brick and bedford limestone third precinct station (1896), located at 2200 hunt street, detroit, mich. the carved limestone portico is quite unique, featuring the...

01 Nov

Posted at 17:46h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Travel by

photographic survey of h.h. richardson's bagley memorial fountain (1885), located at cadillac square, detroit, mich. the pink bragville granite fountain was modeled after a ciborium located in st. mark's basilica in venice. the centrally located carved lionheads distribute the water (the original was stolen between the...

31 Oct

Posted at 14:39h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

the bldg. 51 museum and archive secured an original healy and millet-designed oversized leaded stained glass skylight window salvaged from adler and sullivan's 1889-90 auditorium theater. the hinged window has been releaded within a newly-built solid oak wood frame. the original centrally located ruby red...

31 Oct

Posted at 00:07h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Travel by

a recent exterior and interior photographic survey of the abandoned but largely intact stanley hong’s mannia cafe, located at 265 east baltimore street, detroit, mich. the stanley hong’s mannia café building in detroit, built in 1969, was designed by african american architect nathan johnson. ...

28 Oct

Posted at 02:56h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Travel by

from movie palace to parking lot. interior images of the grand lobby and auditorium of rapp and rapp's michigan building and theater (1926), located at 220 bagley avenue, detroit, mich. additional images of interior and exrterior will be posted shortly. a large portion of rapp and rapp's...

24 Oct

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exterior photographic survey of louis h. sullivan-designed terra cotta ornament (executed by winkle of st. louis) on adler and sullivan's 1893 union trust building, located at 705 olive street, st. louis, mo. the 14-story union trust building (705 olive street, st. louis) was designed...

23 Oct

Posted at 14:21h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Travel by

recent images of adler and sullivan's 10-story wainwright building (1891), located at 709 chestnut street, st. louis, mo. the first two floors are faced with reddish-brown sandstone quarried from michigan. the red slip terra cotta was executed by the winkle terra cotta company, st. louis, mo. ...

22 Oct

Posted at 18:10h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

over the past week the bld. 51 museum and archive successfully negotiated a deal to secure a sizable quantity of original and intact historically important great chicago fire of 1871 stereoscopic wet plate glass negatives.  after being carefully cleaned, scanning or digitizing of the...

22 Oct

Posted at 14:41h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Salvages by

original 8 x 10 black and white interior and exterior photographic images of edward e. eichenbaum's 3400-seat granada theater (1926), located at 6427-41 north sheridan road, chicago, il. the cream-colored terra cotta facade was salvaged by dave felling of felling contracting, st. louis, mo. during its...

21 Oct

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newly discovered photographic interior images (taken at time of demolition by dave felling) of jenney and mundie's gothic style 11-story isabella building (1894-2004), located at 44-48 van buren street (between state and washington) in chicago, il. the isabella was one of three chicago buildings that...

20 Oct

Posted at 18:58h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

photographic survey of historically important american building ornament on display in the two-story father donald f. rowe, s.j., gallery of architectural art, at st. ignatius college prep school, chicago, il. the critical mass of chicago-centric building ornament is very impressive, but arrangement disjointed. if anything,...

20 Oct

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october, 2025 images of alfred caldwell's 1938 lily pool (including images of its prarie style pavilion and council ring) located at 125 west fullerton parkway, chicago, 60614. the multi-million dollar renovation project led to restoration of caldwell's prairie style copper, wood, and stone pavilions, limestone pathways,...

19 Oct

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kodachrome images of charles k. ramsey's caesar's cafe (1896), located at 210 north 6th street, st. louis, mo. [caption id="attachment_96270" align="alignleft" width="767"] Rivoli Theater, Sixth Street south of Olive Street. Night view. photograph by Persons, W.C., 1925. Missouri History Museum Photographs and Prints Collections. Theaters. n20490.[/caption] from...

17 Oct

Posted at 14:50h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Travel by

october, 2025 visit: recent images of richard nickel’s adler & sullivan building ornament collection on display at lovejoy library, southern illinois university edwardsville (siue). nickel sold his architectural artifact collection to the university in 1966 for 12,000 dollars - a decision he never made peace with despite...

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