revisting "wrightesque" 1928 debaliviere building over a year later. photographic images of isadore shank's three-story art deco mayan-revival debaliviere building (1928), located at 5642-58 delmar blvd., st. louis, mo. the neglected and seemingly abandoned building's exterior is comprised largely of richly glazed black and red terra cotta...

early 20th century photographic image of holabird and roche's oliver typewriter building (1907), located at 159 north dearborn street, chicago, il. the image (scanned from original glass negative) was likely taken by or for the chicago architectural photographing company. ...

historic american building survey (habs) images of william alfred freret's richardsonian romanesque style brick and terra cotta la crosse, wisc. post office building (1889) prior to its senseless destruction, the extant building that replaced it in 1979, and red slip terra cotta ornament and exterior...

photographic survey of george maher's american victorian style john c. scales house (1894), located at 840 west hutchinson street, chicago, il. the exterior is punctuated with richly colored rusticated stonework, gothic style fret-sawn woodwork, red slip-glazed terra cotta and leaded glass windows.  ...

detail images of wheelock and thomas's downtown chicago post-fire bryant building or delaware block (1873), located at 36 west randolph street, chicago, il. the building was extensively remodeled (both interior and exterior) in 1889 and renamed the chicago real estate board building. the building is comprised...

slipped through the cracks: what remained of william j. brinkman's kuntz-remmler building (1908) located at 424 south wabash avenue, chicago, il., was recently demolished to make way for a spellbinding structure by enc construction and development. the cream-colored sullivanesque style building (a clumsy knock off of...

after nearly seven years documenting restoration of frank lloyd wright's a.d. german warehouse, the interior is accessible to the public and available for tours! interior and exterior photographic images of frank lloyd wright's a.d. german warehouse (1914), located at 300 south church street, richland center, wi. it...

the bld. 51 museum is collaborating with the chicago-based casalino archive to digitize and showcase newly discovered and seldom seen color slides (e.g., kodachromes) of henry ives cobb's federal building and post office (1898-1905) and surrounding historically important commerical buildings as they appeared in the...

weekend images taken during my weekend "tour" of gary, indiana, with urban documentarian camilo josé vergara. some of the sites we visited together are subject matter in his books, american ruins (vergara, 1999) and unexpected chicagoland (vergara with tim samuelson, 2001). for additional information on vergara's work,...

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