08 Aug

Posted at 17:23h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

the bldg. 51 chicago building artifact museum just acquired an early john edelmann-designed hand carved walnut wood interior residential door surround block salvaged in 1959-60 from the levi strauss house (1860s, 1880 remodel). interior ornament - all designed by john edelmann during the 1880 remodel...

28 Jul

Posted at 16:37h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

the cleaned/not cleaned buff-colored spandrels and roofline terra cotta was executed by the northwestern terra cotta company, chicago, ills. wright used the distinctive oversized bead or ball cornice blocks for both waller (1896) and the non-extant francisco terrace apartments (1895-1974), located just north of waller...

27 Jul

Posted at 06:50h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Salvages by

  the wrecking machine is immobile for a moment, but research on this cottage remains active, as i repeatedly visit to explore and document the house's framework -- bedecked with pegged and notched sill plates, rough-sawn white pine "sticks," and so on. both the interior and exterior have been altered so...

27 Jul

Posted at 01:14h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Salvages by

    a compilation of images, brief comments taken from other social media platforms, and previous blog bld. 51 blog posts on louis h. sullivan's henry babson house are presented below. the babson house are richard nickel, john vinci, and david norris salvaged louis h. sullivan's 1908 henry babson...

26 Jul

Posted at 20:57h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

latest photographic images from bldg. 51 archive's chicago architectural ornament survey (caos) are provided below. the ever-expanding photo-documentation project focuses on systematically recording any and all architectural ornament located on historically important 19th and early 20th century extant buildings located in downtown chicago and surrounding...

20 Jul

Posted at 14:13h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Salvages by

photographic survey (a work in progress) of the romanesque style compton hill standpipe water tower designed by architect harvey ellis in 1898. the compton hill water tower (1898), is the earliest of three extant stand pipe-water towers located in st. louis. the 179-foot water tower was...

19 Jul

Posted at 20:19h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

the bldg. 51 museum houses a large repository of ornament and artifacts representing some of chicago's finest depression-era "movie palaces" that have succumbed to demolition or short-sighted alterations and/or renovations where ornament was removed or rescued. in addition to the architectural ornament, the museum houses the...

15 Jul

Posted at 16:39h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Salvages by

washington porter jr.’s "kiosk sphinx" was a custom-designed private museum built between 1928-1933 at a cost of 350,000 dollars on the rear lot of his parent’s mansion, located at 4043 lake park avenue, chicago, ills. the unusual cast concrete structure with massive steel observation tower...

13 Jul

Posted at 15:52h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Salvages by

unfortunately, i didn't have the time to systemically document a post-fire chicago wood-framed cottage located on ohio street (west town neighborhood of chicago) until it was nearly demolished. when i arrived, the facade was left partially intact and the interlocking sills and girts where exposed. sheathing and...

13 Jul

Posted at 15:11h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

as richard nickel once said, "it's all so god damn hopeless." knisely store and flats (1883): rubin rubel residence (1884): martin barbe residence (1884): samuel stern residence (1885): victoria hotel (1891-2): albert sullivan residence (1891): henry babson house (1908): images courtesy of bldg. 51 archive, tim...

12 Jul

Posted at 22:06h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Travel by

documenting 19th and early 20th century architectural buildings and ornament in milwaukee over 4th of july weekend. highlighted structures recorded include northwestern mutual life insurance company building (1886), frederick pabst mansion (1892), milwaukee city hall (1895), and iron block (1860). ...

11 Jul

Posted at 14:20h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

recently discovered kodachrome slides of adler and sullivan commissions taken by an amateur photographer who documented much of their work between the 1960s and 1980s now digitized (see selection below). the collection includes most of their extant work in the midwest and east coast. the slides...

08 Jul

Posted at 04:26h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

these seldom seen dated john vinci kodachrome slides offer a rare glimpse at louis h. sullivan's babson house (1908) during its demolition in 1960.  the images represent the only visual record of the babson house's untimely demise documented in color. the digitized slides have not...

06 Jul

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 artifacts added to the ever-expanding urban remains virtual catalog (over 75,000 items digitized/cataloged over the past 16 years). the newly acquired items for the month of JUly, 2022, have been documented, cleaned/refinished (if need...

05 Jul

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

the following blog entry revolves around richard nickel images documenting the removal of the louis sullivan-designed carved bedford limestone entrance lunette from the albert sullivan house's façade in 1970. the lunette is one of only a few surviving links to sullivan's work on the 1893 chicago world's...

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