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04 Dec latest architectural artifacts, industrial furniture, and ephemera added to website for month of december

Posted at 04:29h in Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by Eric

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

Posted at 21:06h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by Eric

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...

12 Nov bldg. 51 museum archive continues expansion with newly added artifacts, books, and ephemera on chicago architecture

Posted at 19:33h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by Eric

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,...

03 Nov early frank lloyd wright-designed roloson rowhouse terra cotta baluster acquired by bldg. 51 museum archive

Posted at 18:37h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by Eric

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...

22 Oct latest salvaged chicago objects and artifacts for the month of october

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01 Oct considerable number of newly acquired salvaged chicago architectural artifacts and medical furniture pieces added to website catalog

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04 Sep most recent antique american architectural artifacts and industrial furniture added to urban remains website catalog

Posted at 03:49h in Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by Eric

27 Aug urban remains salvages several matching leaded art glass windows from 1920s chicago bungalow

Posted at 10:44h in Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products, Salvages by Eric

several original and highly desirable early 1920's antique american craftsman style interior residential leaded art glass windows were recently salvaged from a chicago bungalow last week. the all original and amazingly intact strongly geometric windows were designed and fabricated by the notable chicago-based h. eberhardt...

13 Aug recently added architectural artifacts, american industrial furniture, and other oddities

Posted at 04:29h in Events & Announcements, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by Eric

16 Jul preview of latest salvaged chicago architectural artifacts and ornament added to urban remains website catalog

Posted at 20:46h in Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by Eric

15 Jul brown brothers city sidewalk vault light panel fragments, lenses and coal chute covers now available

Posted at 03:20h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by Eric

shortly after acquiring a sizable amount of creosoted wood street pavers or blocks, several brown brothers vault light artifacts came through our front door last week. all of the documented artifacts were salvaged by a perceptive city contractor who knew i was vigorously seeking out...

09 Jul bldg. 51 museum acquires winslow brothers elevator and staircase ornament from holabird & roche’s old colony building

Posted at 02:50h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by Eric

several historically important interior architectural artifacts from holabird & roche's 1893-94 old colony building were added to the bldg. 51 museum's building ornament archive earlier this week. the most important architectural elements headed to the museum's first chicago school exhibit include an ornamental wrought and...

19 Jun latest architectural ornament, various objects, and industrial furniture added to urban remains website

Posted at 03:42h in Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products, Sales and Promotions by Eric

18 Jun bldg. 51 acquires chicago stock exchange interior sullivan-designed elevator door t-plate and transom

Posted at 20:48h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by Eric

the bldg. 51 museum archive recently acquired a louis h. sullivan-designed elevator screen electro-plated copper "t-plate" and cast iron header or frieze panel salvaged from the chicago stock exchange building (1893) during its demolition in 1972. the exceptionally hard to find and highly sought after...

10 Jun old and new historically important ornament housed in the bldg. 51 museum archive

Posted at 19:05h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by Eric

the following gallery of artifacts represent only a small fraction of the bldg. 51 museum archive, which is comprised of thousands of meticulously cataloged (with images and descriptions) objects, ornament, ephemera, and other materials revolving around the first and second chicago schools of architecture. additional...

21 May newly added architectural artifacts, industrial furniture, and objects

Posted at 20:30h in Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by Eric

07 May urban remains launches newly-designed website complete with upgraded catalog containing over 35,000 artifacts and objects

Posted at 21:18h in Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by Eric

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,...

30 Apr bldg. 51 museum acquires seldom found 19th century electro-glazed prismatic “sawtooth” tiles with brass caming

Posted at 18:36h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by Eric

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...

28 Apr salvaged cast plaster ornament from bedroom of louis h. sullivan’s house joins bldg. 51 museum collection

Posted at 18:19h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by Eric

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 valdemar mortonsen 1876 two-story cottage with frear “artificial stone” window hoods and keystones demolished

Posted at 20:55h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products, Salvages by Eric

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...