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)...

16 Apr

Posted at 22:20h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

an 1870's single-story brick workers cottage on mohawk was issued a demolition permit a few days ago. i would have documented it sooner, but was away in utah for several days. despite being painted, the cottage retains much of its character, including bracketed pine wood cornice...

10 Apr

Posted at 12:33h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

awaiting death by demolition. newspaper clippings courtesy of paul woodfin.  i've been tracking coverage of the impending demolition of the south side chicago washington park bank building, designed in 1925 by architect albert schwartz. after leaving an event on the south side of chicago yesterday afternoon,...

08 Apr

Posted at 12:38h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous by

  the pontiac building is the oldest skyscraper designed by holabird and roche still standing in chicago. completed in 1891, the 14-story building features some dazzling terra cotta, monogrammed hardware, and ornamental iron elevator cages (repurposed). northwestern executed the terra cotta and elevator ornament was done...

29 Mar

Posted at 18:52h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Travel by

the following images were taken during a brief visit to la crosse, wisconsin, a small historic city founded in 1848 on the mississippi river, where several surviving 19th century workers cottages, italianate commercial buildings, and chicago prairie school structures contribute to cityscape rich in heritage,...

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