03 Jun

Posted at 15:32h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions by

the latest digitized images from notable 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...

27 May

Posted at 18:24h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

most recent images selected from my ever-growing photographic survey of carved bedford limestone ornament adorning late 19th and early 20th century chicago homes. for a few years now, i've devoted several afternoons nearly each month, driving around and documenting bedford stone ornament found on residential and...

25 May

Posted at 03:12h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Salvages by

a collection of blog posts (links listed below) on the destruction of 19th century erie street worker cottages on chicago's rapidly changing  near west side.  AN INTENSIVE STUDY ON MATERIALS AND METHODS USED IN BUILDING THE CHICAGO WORKERS COTTAGE PRIVY VAULT WITH SCATTERED REMNANTS UNEARTHED BEHIND A PRE-FIRE CHICAGO...

21 May

Posted at 20:30h in Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

the following image 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 50,000 catalog listings to date). the newly acquired items have been documented, cleaned/refinished (if need be)...

21 May

Posted at 18:05h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

Remembering the Garrick: An Evening with John Vinci Tuesday, September 24, 2019 7:00 PM  8:00 PM Glessner House1800 S. Prairie AvenueChicagoUnited States(map) Google Calendar  ICS The Garrick Theater (originally known as the Schiller Building) looms large in Chicago history – both as a masterpiece of Adler & Sullivan...

20 May

Posted at 23:00h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Travel by

  over the past decade, i've taken tens of thousands of images of milwaukee architecture, and it continues to grow each and every time i visit, espeically when newly discovered residential and commercial buildings are added to my "circuit." like the work i do in chicago, a book on milwaukee's architecture...

07 May

Posted at 21:18h in Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

for over 13 years, urban remains continues to be one of the leading architectural artifact companies in the county, distinguished by its ever-expanding website, populated with over 35,000 objects and artifacts meticulously cataloged with professional images and detailed descriptions. our newest website, launched earlier this week,...

03 May

Posted at 19:43h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

yet another 1880s two-story residential brick cottage located in chicago's west town neighborhood will be reduced to rubble by the end of the week. according to an 1887 city directory, arthur heun, a draughtman, resided there, located at what was then 334 huron steet.  the 19th century...

03 May

Posted at 17:48h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Salvages by

one of two 19th century single-story brick workers cottages on race street (formerly known as emerson street) is set to be destroyed in the coming weeks. the boarded cottage with unornamented joliet limestone block headers, oculus window, and turned wood porch columns is located just...

30 Apr

Posted at 18:36h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

prismatic glass appeared on the american market at the 1893 columbian exposition in chicago from gustave falconnier. falconnier was an architect and city council member in nyon, france. a graduate of the ecole des beaux-arts in paris, falconnier had many patents in the 1880s for...

29 Apr

Posted at 02:31h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

hodgepodge of images including a figural sandstone keystone, sullivan-designed fret-sawn panel detail from holy trinity (1903), safe and threatened cottages, incised lemont window hoods, northwestern terra cotta ornament, anderson pressed brick neogrec blocks, painted pine wood bracketed cornice detail, and...

28 Apr

Posted at 18:19h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

an original interior cast plaster cove molding fragment salvaged from adler and sullivan's albert sullivan house (1892) is one of the first historically important bldg. 51 museum acquisitions in 2019. the double-sided plaster ornament was located in the 2nd story bedroom where louis sullivan slept when...

23 Apr

Posted at 20:55h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products, Salvages by

with the surrounding neighborhoods virtually unrecognizable, post-fire chicago two-story cottages have been on chicago’s “threatened” historic buildings list for years now. the “for sale” sign on this particular cottage quickly came and went in recent months, the green fence erected quickly thereafter. thankfully, i repeatedly...

22 Apr

Posted at 22:04h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

images of ongoing exterior restoration work on howells and hood's trubine tower (1925), giaver and dinkelberg's jewelers building (1927) and graham, anderson, probst & white's wrigley building (1924). chicago tribune tower:   jewelers bulding: wrigley building: all images courtesy of...

22 Apr

Posted at 21:16h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

richard nickel images of adler and sullivan rothschild building (1881). studying the images closely while digitizing/editing them provided further appreciation for the building and sullivan's early "edelmannesque" ornament. if you look closely, you will see images of the storefront level before and after it was covered...

17 Apr

Posted at 05:46h in Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

the following image 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 50,000 catalog listings to date). the newly acquired items have been documented, cleaned/refinished (if need be)...

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