eric j. nordstrom photographic images of henry ives cobb's chicago athletic association building facade as it appeared prior to restoration in 2013-2014. i spent nearly a week out on the scaffolding documenting the facade from top to bottom. i discovered multiple lightly incised signatures including george...
cutoff on california. exterior images of a late 19th century three-story residential masonry building, punctuated with carved and rough-faced limestone, stamped steel cornice, and pyramid-shaped shingled turret, located at 104 south california avenue, chicago, il. images courtesy of eric j. nordstrom...
photographic survey of edward townsend mix and burnham and root's three-story victorian style brick, terra cottta, and sandstone milwaukee club building (1883), located at 706 north jefferson street, milwaukee, wisconsin. the building's exterior is faced with red brick, lake superior sandstone, and terra cotta ornament. ...
another data dump from 2009. raw and unedited images of john m. van osdel ii's 1896 ywca hotel, located at 830 south michigan avenue, chicago, il. the building was designed by architect was john m. van osdel ii, nephew of prominent chicago architect john mills van...
exterior photographs of adler and sullivan's james charnley house (1892), located at 1365 north astor street, chicago, il. the original projecting fret-sawn pine wood loggia was extracted, documented, and completely rebuilt in 1980 by john vinci et al. ...
exterior photographic documentation of richard e. schmidt and hugh m. garden's prairie style albert f. madlener house (1902), located at 4 west burton street, chicago, il. the majority of the images revolve around the speckled roman brick and carved ornamental bedford limestone. a few images...
often overlooked prairie avenue survivor. exterior photographic images of american victrorian style john c. cochrane's george e. wood or wood-maxey-boyd house (1885), located at 2801 south prairie avenue, chicago, il. red slip terra cotta ornament executed by the northwestern terra cotta works, chicago, il. ...
seldom seen photographic images of charles b. atwood's fine arts building (1892-93) undergoing reconstruction in 1930 to house the museum of science and industry. the building's badly deteriorated staff exterior was replaced with bedford limestone. the work was done by the r.c. wieboldt construction company for the...
partial photographic survey of holabird and root's art deco style rand tower. the 26-story art deco style rand tower (1929) was designed by chicago-based holabird & root for rufus rand, a world war i aviator who was part of the family that owned the minneapolis gas company (minnegasco), now...
exterior photographs (taken the other day) of fire-damaged edward morris house or swift mansion (1892, willett and pashley, architects), located at 4500 south michigan avenue, chicago, il. the disastrous fire happened in december of 2023 if i recall correctly. very little has happened since with the...
a church constructed with "local boulders" detailed photographic survey of solon spencer beman's first methodist church of batavia, located at 8 north batavia avenue, batavia, il. the richardsonian romanesque style church's exterior is comprised of multi-coloed rough-faced stones or boulders, harvested from local building contractor i.s....
early 20th century 2000 amp direct current thomson watthour recording meter salvaged in the 1960s from open-ended basement switchboard in the pope building (h.g. hodgkins, 1903), located at 121-127 south plymouth court, chicago, il. one of the electricians involved in dismantling the board claims pope was...
2025 photographic study of mabel tainter memorial building (1889-1890) designed by architect harvey ellis. the richardsonian style building, which houses a theater and library, was built for lumber magnate andrew tainter and his wife bertha as a memorial to their daughter mabel tainter, who died of...
photographic documentation of william boyington's osborne and adams post-fire loft building (1872), located at 209 west lake steet, chicago, il. note: the images were taken in 2016, shortly before, during, and after the building's demolition. the facade was comprised of "artificial stone" (also identified as "cast"...
the following images - taken several years ago - were recently rediscovered (unedited) in the bldg. 51 photographic image database on 19th ands early 20th century chicago brick and wood-framed workers cottages. the post-fire structure - likely built within 1-2 years after the great chicago...
two largely intact ornamental black painted cast iron building atrium grilles and custom-designed yale and towne company interior commerical office door ornamental cast iron hinges and doorknobs retaining original bower-barff "rust-proof" finish from edward townsend mix's northwestern guaranty loan company building (1890) were added to...
2025 interior and exterior images of louis sullivan's famers' and merchants' bank building (1919) located at 159 west james street, columbus, wi. the farmers and merchants union bank was the last small bank building or "jewel box" designed by architect louis h. sullivan. sullivan was hired...
the bldg. 51 archive and museum collection recently acquired one of the largest known private collections of 19th and early 20th century paint samples applied to single and/or fold-out cards distributed by a multitude of commerical and residential paint and stain manufacturers across the united...
the mottled reddish-orange slip glaze terra cotta was modeled by architectural sculptor fritz albert, who was assigned the job after head modeler kristian schneider died in 1935. the terra cotta ornament was fabricated by the midland terra cotta company, chicago, ills. emil zettler modeled the school’s exterior...
a large collection of 8 x 10 silver gelatin print photographic images, notes, articles, booklets, etc. chronicling the painstaking effort to systematically document the 1929 deconstruction or demolition of william le baron jenney's home insurance building (1884) by w.j. newman wrecking company, joined the bldg....