built on the site of the first brick building in chicago (1837), the 13 story steel frame chicago stock exchange building was designed by the architectural firm of adler and sullivan with falkenau & company as general contractors. the building was completed in 1894 at...
nothing terribly special (i.e., have been made time and again), but the copper fitters are rather delightful. the fixture, although repurposed, contains two original copper socket housings/fitters manufactured by benjamin electric of chicago. they are incredibly popular now, and i'm sure have been knocked off...
urban remains just completed a west side chicago factory salvage containing a wide assortment of old industrial furniture. we managed to secure over a dozen beautifully aged crank handle die carts designed and fabricated by the hamilton took works. the website contains a small selection,...
a single luxfer patent "sawtooth" tile with embossed lettering...
the centerpiece (found within the bell jar) is identified as a "briquette." this unusual looking rectangular-shaped crushed brass metal block consists primarily of old recycles radiator components. large quantities of these bricks are ultimately melted down at a foundry for producing metal castings. interesting "art"...
completely and utterly exhausted. worked 13 hours straight. removed several truckloads of salvaged items from the chicago athletic club. fortunately, nearly all of the historically significant architectural elements from the original 1893 building (henry ives cobb, architect) and the 1907 "michigan building" addition (schmidt, garden...
we just acquired a large lot on very rare and highly sought after "expanded metal type" freestanding lockers designed and fabricated by the federal steel fixture company (chicago, il.). the thoroughly ventilated locker system was often assembled with no. 13 gauge diamond mesh expanded metal and...
we recently acquired multiple early 20th century factory lunchroom swing-out seat tables fabricated by the chicago hardware foundry company, chicago, il. the large assemblage of unrestored components provide us with greater flexibility to reconfigure the tables into any number of multi-seat arrangements (i.e., 4, 8,...