29 Dec

Posted at 18:57h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

over the course of 2020, the bldg. 51 museum managed to secure several historically important architectural fragments and objects, in addition to the evolving archive, consisting of period photographs, books, documents, drawings, blueprints, models, and other related materials, that will prove invaluable to bolster the...

29 Dec

Posted at 18:15h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products, Salvages by

at the southeast corner of wells and division in chicago’s near north neighborhood, excavation and the choreography of new development have been happening for some time. just last march, ground was broken on the mega-project at atrium village, which will transform a mid-rise residential complex...

15 Dec

Posted at 02:54h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Salvages by

it's rather unfortunate that my recollections of exploring the partially operational (or perhaps largely crippled and chaotic) cook county hospital's power plant are so faint and fragmented. to make matter worse, hundreds of digital photographs taken of cook county hospital's interior during the short-lived salvage...

14 Dec

Posted at 19:35h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

archival prints for sale: eric j. nordstrom has recently launched a website category (a dedicated website and gallery to his photography and collection through the bldg. 51 museum will launch in mid-2021) focusing on the art prints for sale in addition to rights-managed architectural stock photography...

14 Dec

Posted at 05:30h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

i spent several hours looking at and digitizing images from richard nickel's chicago stock excange contact sheets the other day. like the garrick, nickel methodically documented each and every detail, including the building's hardware. adler and sullivan's chicago stock exchange (1894) was outfitted with sullivan-designed cast...

07 Dec

Posted at 04:45h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

  the other day i was rearranging my reference library and ran across frank lloyd wright's stained glass and lightscreens by architect and photographer thomas a. heinz. shortly after reacquainting myself with this great resource, i began combing through images taken of frank lloyd wright-designed windows housed in the bldg. 51 building...

06 Dec

Posted at 20:31h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions by

rare early 20th century comprehensive and profusely illustrated pittsburgh plate glass company's "glass paints, varnishes, and brushes: their history manufacture and use" hardbound book and/or catalog featuring an informative glance at the early beginnings of glassworks, paint development and distribution and the formation and establishment...

05 Dec

Posted at 19:15h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

the following images represent my ongoing effort to systematically document exterior architectural ornament adorning historically significant buildings across chicago. as of this writing, the bldg. 51 archive houses over 500,000 digital files, including several printed on museum quality paper (for traveling exhibitions), which are methodically...

02 Dec

Posted at 15:12h in Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

the following image gallery offers a glimpse at the latest american architectural, medical, and industrial artifacts and/or miscellaneous objects added to the ever-expanding urban remains virtual catalog (over 65,000 items digitized/cataloged over the past 15 years). the newly acquired items for the month of DECEMBER...

28 Nov

Posted at 21:01h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

the following collection of important and seldom seen original real photo postcards (rppc) represents just a fraction of materials currently being digitized from the ever-growing bldg. 51 museum and archive, housed in chicago and owned and maintained by eric j. nordstrom.  early 20th century real...

25 Nov

Posted at 03:34h in Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

urban remains recently acquired one of the largest known collections of original 19th century american victorian-era salvaged chicago majolica figural tiles and fireplace surrounds executed in a multitude of rich color schemes and elaborate designs. examples from this remarkable collection are shown below. update as of...

24 Nov

Posted at 19:32h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

the bldg. 51 museum recently acquired late 19th century original and completely intact brand brewery administration building terra cotta roofline ornament executed by the northwestern terra cotta company, chicago, ills. the remarkable and historically important ornamental square-shaped block was salvaged from the brewery complex during...

10 Nov

Posted at 21:05h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Products, Salvages by

when companies are contracted by the developers to extricate structurally unsound vaulted sidewalks and alleys in and around sites to be excavated for future construction, work continues with subsequent digging to remove concrete and asphalt, which in many cases, leads to the discovery of well-preserved...

09 Nov

Posted at 10:47h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

with more and more projects piling up, including taking over a thousand images of the congress theater (completed 1926, fridstein & company, architects) the other day before it undergoes an extensive rehabilitation this spring, i've decided to simply begin posting images of central park theater's...

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