19 Feb

Posted at 15:31h 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 60,000 items digitized/cataloged over the past 15 years). the newly acquired items have been documented, cleaned/refinished (if...

17 Feb

Posted at 21:48h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

a collection of historically-important architectural ornament, comprised of sullivan-designed ornament salvaged from adler and sullivan's guaranty building (1896), and an exterior brick wall fragment recovered during demolition of frank lloyd wright's larkin building (1904-1906) during its demolition in 1950, was purchased for the bldg. 51...

12 Feb

Posted at 03:13h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

latest digitized images from chicago architect john vinci's collection of kodachrome and/or ektachrome slides and other photographic images/ephemera are presented below. to see previous posts containing images from this ever-growing collection, please click on links under "further reading." captions will be added to the slides as time...

10 Feb

Posted at 20:24h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

richard nickel images of adler and sullivan’s morris selz residence completed in 1883.. david norris, john vinci, and richard nickel documented/salvaged exterior and interior ornament shortly before the house was demolished in 1967. architectural ornament saved from the selz residence is housed in private collections,...

04 Feb

Posted at 20:38h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

for over a year, perhaps longer, i've made several visits to adler and sullivan's historic 1881 s.a. maxwell & company five-story lift building to document the installation of  "period appropriate" exterior windows in addition recording the transformation of the upper floors (3-5) into rental units....

04 Feb

Posted at 19:24h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

images documenting 19th and early 20th century architectural buildings and ornament during first of many trips to milwaukee in 2020. my truncated visit prevented me from exploring my areas of interest in a more in-depth and methodical manner, but i can always pick up where...

28 Jan

Posted at 22:33h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

1870s two-story red brick chicago workers cottage with distinctive frear's patent "artificial stone" window hoods or headers, accentuated with deeply incised abstract floral motifs, is set to be demolished in the coming weeks. sadly, it's just another reminder that 19th and early 20th century chicago...

21 Jan

Posted at 15:12h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

another year has drawn to a close and looking back, the bldg. 51 museum collection managed to secure several historically important architectural fragments, in addition to the evolving archive, consisting of period photographs, books, documents, drawings, blueprints, models, and other related materials that will prove...

16 Jan

Posted at 01:25h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

for richard nickel, ruth moore, joe benson, john vinci, and david norris. the schiller building virtual archive's images and artifacts courtesy of ryerson and burnham, art institute of chicago, john vinci collection and the bldg. 51 archive.  EXCAVATION OF ADLER AND SULLIVAN'S SCHILLER BUILDING WOOD PILE FOUNDATION...

14 Jan

Posted at 20:28h 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 50,000 items digitized/cataloged over the past 15 years). the newly acquired items have been documented, cleaned/refinished (if...

10 Jan

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

images of sullivan-designed exterior s.a. maxwell building (1881) cast iron mullions and surrounding spandrels with emphasis on protruding bases accentuated with deeply recessed ferns and leaf spirals. the five-story building's exterior ironwork was likely fabricated by snead or possibly union foundry works. i would really like...

08 Jan

Posted at 03:35h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

unfortunately, i didn't have the bandwidth to continually document von holst's 40th street commonwealth edison substation, including its demolition, which is all but complete. when i arrived yesterday afternoon, all that remained were slabs of concrete and a partially exposed basement. i was told...

04 Jan

Posted at 03:38h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

a brief description on the use of wood piles for the foundation supporting adler and sullivan's schiller theater building (1892), along with several images taken by richard nickel in 1961, when the building was demolished and ground excavated exposing the largely intact foundations (including oak...

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