04 Dec latest architectural artifacts, industrial furniture, and ephemera added to website for month of december
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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)...
02 Dec faithfully reproduced louis h. sullivan-designed guaranty building lobby elevator ornament joints bldg. 51 museum collection
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looking over newspapers on the guaranty building, i discovered plans that announced (january, 1951) to do away with the original open-cage sullivan-designed elevator enclosures within the guaranty building (adler & sullivan, architects, 1896). the "modernization" would cost 20,000, which included new otis elevator cabs ordered to...
26 Nov recreation and installation of h.i. cobb’s 1893 chicago athletic association building plaster “stalactite” ceiling
after well over three years, i've finally begun the arduous task of editing hundreds of photographic images documenting the recreation and installation of henry ives cobb's chicago athletic association building's (1893) gothic style cast plaster "drooping tip" illuminated ceiling, located in the building's great dining...
22 Nov detailed survey of 19th century cottages in wicker park underway
i'll be spending the next several months documenting (off-and-on) 19th century residential structures in and around wicker park with an emphasis on workers cottages. an exhaustive photographic survey of these structures offered in condensed format (e.g., book, archive, etc.) is long overdue, espeically in light...
19 Nov exhaustive photographic study of frank lloyd wright’s a.d. german warehouse and concrete ornament
the following images were selected from hundreds of photographs systemically documenting the long-overlooked a.d. german warehouse designed in 1914 by frank lloyd wright. located in richland center, wisc., the warehouse was the only building wright ever designed in the town he was born. the warehouse...
19 Nov photographic images of new york city building ornament taken during 2016 visit
while making a futile attempt to further organize my photographic images of american architecture taken in 2016, i ran across several folders that were either mislabeled, simply "shelved," or forgotten about. some of the folders had content i found compelling enough to carve out time...
12 Nov bldg. 51 museum archive continues expansion with newly added artifacts, books, and ephemera on chicago architecture
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2019 has been an incredibly fruitful year in terms of ephemera, book, and artifact acquisition - based upon what the bldg. 51 museum archive has already secured, along with arrangements in the works or nearing finalization. the ever-growing museum archive has reached a critical mass,...
11 Nov eric j. nordstrom featured in october 2019 issue of sophisticated living magazine
urban remains and bldg. 51 museum owner eric j. nordstrom featured in october 2019 issue of sophisticated living magazine. magazine link: https://lsc-pagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=619240&p=&pn=#{%22issue_id%22:619240,%22page%22:92} further reading: THE URBAN ARCHAEOLOGIST URBAN REMAINS FEATURED IN PLAYBOY MAGAZINE IN 2011...
04 Nov richard nickel images of chicago stock exchange terra cotta cornice dismantlement during building’s demolition in 1972
the following collection of images - coupled with brief descriptions, were taken from a larger photographic essay (a work in progress) on the demolition of adler and sullivan's chicago stock exchange building (1894). the images are being digitized from nickel's contact sheets for the time-being. richard...
03 Nov early frank lloyd wright-designed roloson rowhouse terra cotta baluster acquired by bldg. 51 museum archive
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among the bldg. 51 museum archive's latest addition is an original frank lloyd wright-designed buff-colored terra cotta exterior robert roloson rowhouse (1894) baluster salvaged when the front terraces where dismantled/demolished in the early 1970's. most of the surviving balusters exhibit some degree of damage, espeically...
01 Nov urban remains and bldg. 51 museum owner eric j. nordstrom featured in forbes life magazine
By LifestyleContributor Group This story appears in the September 29, 2014 issue of Forbes Life. By Forbes Staff , Contributor Around noon at the Gethsemane Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, the post-metal band Jesu’s Ascension is tuned to a low thrash from a boom box with a cherry red city of...
29 Oct continued photo-documentation of s.a. maxwell loft building’s conversion to boutique hotel
the most recent interior photographic images chronicling the transformation of the s.a. maxwell loft building's upper floors into livable spaces are found below. at this stage, the upper floors are virtually unrecognizable when compared to images taken by richard nickel in the 1960's and myself...
27 Oct a photographic analysis of louis sullivan-designed wainwright building terra cotta revisited
photographic survey (in progress) of sullivan-designed red slip terra cotta spandrel panels, capitals and cornice on wainwright building by adler and sullivan and c.k. ramsey (1891). the 10-story building's terra cotta ornament was fabricated by the winkle terra cotta company (incorporated in 1889), st. louis, mo. i...
22 Oct latest salvaged chicago objects and artifacts for the month of october
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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 Oct documentation of howells and hood’s tribune tower restoration as of october 2019
latest photographic images from ongoing restoration of howells and hood's tribune tower (1925) and partial demolition of jarvis hunt's printing plant (1929). the majority of the images focus on capturing tradesmen restoring the tower's bedford limestone from their swing stages hanging off the facade like...
21 Oct garrick material from bldg. 51 archive exhibited at john vinci’s garrick theater lecture held at glessner house
the john vinci garrick theater lecture was a great success. some of the images below were used in vinci's slideshow, with one of the primary highlights being his latest drawings of the theater he has spent months working on. more to follow. Program Description: The Garrick Theater...
13 Oct demolition looms over two von holst comed substations, a post-fire cottage, and 1880’s downtown chicago residence
four chicago buildings from the 19th and early 20th century will be wiped off the map in the coming weeks. the four links to past posts provide additional information and images. ANOTHER EARLY 20TH CENTURY SOUTH SIDE CHICAGO VON HOLST-DESIGNED SUBSTATION FACED WITH DEMOLITION HERMAN V. VON...
12 Oct with scaffolding partially erected, burnham and root’s 1888 rookery building latest to undergo facade restoration
there is a great deal of facade restoration work being done on downtown chicago's late 19th and early 20th century buildings this year, including, but not limited to, chicago tribune tower (howells and hood, 1925), marquette building (holabird and roche, 1895), cook county hospital (...
12 Oct latest digitized richard nickel contact sheet images documenting schiller theater building demolition
after taking a break from digitizing and editing images pulled from richard nickel's contact sheets on demolition of adler and sullivan's 1893 schiller building or garrick theater, i'm back at it with the sole purpose to have a complete digital record of any and all...