22 Apr

Posted at 15:06h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products, Salvages by

demolition images of stephen v. shipman's 1888 daniel a. jones memorial hospital building located at 1753 west congress parkway, chicago, il. the majority of the red slip-glazed terra cotta (fabricated by the northwestern terra cotta company) was salvaged during its demolition in the spring of 2016. ...

17 Apr

Posted at 14:57h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

small selection of depression-era (mostly) photographic images (scanned from original glass negatives) of chicago taken by photographer fred g. korth (1902-1983). korth emigrated to chicago from germany in 1926 where he learned photography. shortly thereafter, he became a member of the dearborn camera club and exhibited...

10 Apr

Posted at 16:35h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

  the bldg. 51 archive and museum recently acquired notable chicago photographer richard nickel's institute of design (founded in 1936) student photo album dating to the 1950s. the images and related ephemera were pasted on cover and each of the black pages within the unbound scrapbook...

01 Apr

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

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...

18 Mar

Posted at 14:10h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

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...

05 Mar

Posted at 17:47h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

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...

24 Feb

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

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...

12 Feb

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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...

06 Feb

Posted at 16:27h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

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....

03 Feb

Posted at 18:44h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

the following set of photographic images, taken by the chicago architectural photographing company, offers a seldom seen and deeply informative visual record of the demolition (including detailed images of deconstruction and wrecking methodologies), excavation, and construction of chicago's downtown city hall by chicago-based w.j. newman.  the...

28 Jan

Posted at 18:41h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

the following snapshots were taken by little known photographer joseph barron, who traveled with architectural historian hugh morrison around the country documenting any and all adler and sullivan buildings (identifed through morrison's research) during the 1930s for his 1935 book, "Louis Sullivan: Prophet of Modern...

15 Jan

Posted at 14:56h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, Salvages by

posted july 11, 2014: before i begin what will likely be a series of posts revolving around the salvage of this pre-fire residence, i wanted to present a few images taken while i was exploring the attic space that was constructed during the early 1860's, when...

03 Jan

Posted at 17:05h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

the bldg. 51 archive and museum recently acquired the only known frank lloyd wright-designed fragments salvaged from adler and sullivan's victoria hotel (1892) during its demolition in 1961. the following images were taken by richard nickel in early 1961 of adler & sullivan's victoria hotel...

02 Jan

Posted at 17:27h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products, Press, Sales and Promotions, Salvages, Travel by

note: the following links represent some highlights accomplished in 2024. the posts are arranged chronologically, from beginning of 2024 to end of year. pabst mansion pavilion - a rare surviving relic of the 1893 columbian exposition on its way to be dismantled again 1902 henry l. newhouse-designed...

05 Dec

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

latest acquisition. rare 1909 chicago athletic association building "cherry circle" 19th anniversary gilt edge hardbound special issue (given to officers and club members only) with silver gelatin photographic image of club member charles ffrench (president, director, and manager of the iron and steel publishing company)...

29 Nov

Posted at 16:36h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

rebuilt chicago in 1873: illustrated. scanned pages (including cover and advertisements) from a recently found and exceptionally rare oversized hardbound book entitled "the merchants and manufacturers of chicago : being a complete history of our mercantile and manufacturing interests, and their progress since the fire :...

18 Nov

Posted at 04:34h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

eric j. nordstrom, through his bldg. 51 archive and museum, has been consumed with a project attempting to bridge various local archives in a unified manner, that for the time-being, is translated in the following images accompanied with brief descriptions or narratives identifying the historical...

15 Nov

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urban remains and the bldg. 51 musuem are pleased to offer full-scale frank lloyd wright and alfonso iannelli-designed "sprite" or "spindle" heads that were cast from a mold made from a documented original fragmented full-figured sprite undergoing restoration. the limited edition "spindle" head sculptures were...

13 Nov

Posted at 16:46h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

early photographic print (note hand-applied retouching) made from william shaw's original glass negative of w.d. kerfoot realty company building (october 1871-june 1872), located at 89 west washington street, chicago, il. the 12 by 16 foot "shanty of boards" was said to be the first "building" erected...

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