31 Dec

Posted at 10:54h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products, Salvages by

beginning last week we were notified of a major excavation where a former parking lot will be redeveloped for condo construction. consisting of several lots, this massive parcel of land once contained multiple brick and wood-framed dwellings, according to sanborn insurance maps dating back to...

30 Dec

Posted at 01:28h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products, Salvages by

the focal point of wolf point "part two" moves away from the discovery of several mid-19th century pontiled soda and/or mineral water bottles during excavations in the 1980's, which were retrieved from intact wood-lined privy pits built and later filled by individuals that resided near...

29 Dec

Posted at 17:03h in Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

urban remains recently obtained a sizeable amount of well-maintained and intricately designed "real bronze" interior residential entrance, passage and pocket door hardware designed and fabricated by the hopkins & dickinson mfg. co., new york city, ny. the patterns exhibited in the builders' hardware or "trimmings" was...

23 Dec

Posted at 16:11h in Bldg. 51, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

extraordinary and very rare early 20th century remarkably intact new york city subway sub-station single panel open front switchboard designed and fabricated by the metropolitan electric mfg. co., new york city, ny. metropolitan was founded in 1892 and went on to manufacture electrical equipment in addition...

23 Dec

Posted at 01:47h in Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

earlier this afternoon i managed to secure an incredibly huge lot of visually striking and vibrantly colored anglo-japanese style residential parlor stove figural majolica tiles designed and fabricated for notable stove maker, sherman s. jewett & company, buffalo, ny. the exceptionally well-designed glazed ceramic tiles...

20 Dec

Posted at 02:14h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

i recently acquired a remarkable cobalt blue iron pontil glass soda bottle that was recovered from a wood-lined privy pit dating to the 1850's. interestingly, the bottle is not native to chicago, although other bottles found where identified as chicago-based lomax and competitor hutchinson, who...

19 Dec

Posted at 15:59h in Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

this remarkable contraption, comprised of painted iron and wood, is a very early commercial building integrated fire hose reel and swing-out bracket manufactured by or for jno. c.n. guilbert of new york city. the date of fabrication is likely 1895-98. the firefighting device was made available...

16 Dec

Posted at 15:00h in Bldg. 51, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

very few of the original "sprite" statues adorning midway gardens survived demolition in 1929. the indoor/outdoor entertainment facility was constructed in 1914 with frank lloyd wright as architect. the full-bodied statues were designed and executed by notable industrial designer and sculptor, alfonso iannelli. wright took...

09 Dec

Posted at 14:01h in Events & Announcements, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products, Sales and Promotions by

the photo gallery below offers hand-picked or "highlighted" artifacts from this week's listings (15 new items are added daily in their respective categories) on the urban remains website. as of this writing, we have surpassed the 21,200 item mark. the ultimate goal since day one,...

04 Dec

Posted at 14:03h in Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

the bergmann socket was designed to be compact and simply constructed with as few parts as possible, including the amount of insulation used and possess a very simple form of "circuit-controller." the stout copper-plated two-part shell or casing, containing several lightly incised patents, conceals the socket,...

03 Dec

Posted at 10:46h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

i feel very fortunate that we had the opportunity last saturday afternoon to attend the last day of architech gallery owner david jameson's "burnham, sullivan & wright" exhibit. almost immediately upon our entry we received a warm greeting and quick overview from david. i happened...

30 Nov

Posted at 02:06h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

as i continue to systematically document an overwhelming amount of drawings, photographs, artifacts and correspondences revolving around notable artisan odin j. oyen, i felt it was important to share multiple drawings i've gathered thus far that not only shed new light on oyen's work during...

28 Nov

Posted at 13:33h in Events & Announcements, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products by

the photo gallery below offers numerous hand-picked or "highlighted" artifacts from this week's listings (15 new items are added daily in their respective categories) on the urban remains website. as of this writing, we have surpassed the 21,200 item mark. the ultimate goal since day...

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