BLDG51. News and Events |

30 Dec richard haas artwork for theodore link’s st. louis union station joins bld. 51 museum collection

Posted at 19:01h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products, Press, Uncategorized by Eric

original signed richard haas painting (1985) of theodore link's gargantuan romanesque style union station headhouse (1894), located at 1820 market street, st. louis, mo. haas's artwork was used for the cover art of barbaralee diamonstein's heavily illustrated 1986 book entitled "remaking america: new uses, old places." backside...

30 Dec rare graven and mayger theater dedication booklet latest additon to bld. 51 archive and museum

Posted at 17:16h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products, Uncategorized by Eric

original linen-backed period photographic images of graven and mayger’s mayan revival style 3500-seat fisher theater in albert kahn’s fisher building (1928), located at 3011 west grand blvd., detroit, mi. the theater was completely gutted in 1961 - replacing the auditorium's mayan revival theme with mid-century...

25 Dec second time capsule extracted from flizikowski and kaiser’s german evangelical lutheran church (1890-96) shortly before being reduced to rubble

Posted at 02:11h in Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products, Salvages, Uncategorized by Eric

a second time capsule buried within the lightly incised lemont limestone cornerstone of the church erected in 1890 and destroyed by fire in 1896, was removed intact earlier this week. once again, the soldered-joint zinc box or time capsule was damaged upon careful removal from...

22 Dec “relic house” artifacts and ephemera join bld. 51 museum’s largest privately-owned colletion revolving around the great chicago fire of 1871

Posted at 18:59h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products, Press, Uncategorized by Eric

relic house, a historic chicago saloon and restaurant, was built in 1872 from materials salvaged after the great chicago fire of 1871. originally at north park avenue and center street, it later moved near north clark street and lincoln park west. throughout its history, it...

22 Dec three matching frank lloyd wright-designed roloson house (1894) buff-colored terra cotta balusters join bld. 51 museum collection

Posted at 17:57h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products, Press, Uncategorized by Eric

three largely intact and original early frank lloyd wright-designed buff-colored sullivanesque terra cotta balusters salvaged from the robert roloson row houses (1894) when the front terraces where dismantled/demolished in the early 1970's were added to the ever-expanding bldg. 51 museum collection. most of the surviving balusters...

21 Dec frank lloyd wright-designed exterior william winslow house painted cast staff leafage fragment added to bld. 51 musuem and archive

Posted at 16:17h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products, Uncategorized by Eric

an original and largley intact painted cast staff or fibrous plaster frank lloyd wright-designed leafage panel salvaged from the william h. winslow house (1894) during renovations was added to bld. 51 museum collection earlier this week. the chocolate brown colored fragment features all over leafage...

17 Dec dave felling salvage images of stephen v. shipman’s italianate style elgin state hospital & the northern illinois hospital and asylum for the insane (1874) taken during demolition in 1993

Posted at 17:19h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, Salvages, Uncategorized by Eric

dave felling salvage images of stephen v. shipman's italianate style elgin state hospital & the northern illinois hospital and asylum for the insane (1874) taken during its demolition in 1993. the center building's distinctive exterior two-story ornamental cast iron veranda above the limestone portico was carefully...

29 Dec bldg. 51 museum gifted historically-important terra cotta figural loggia corner panel from clinton j. warren’s lexington hotel

Posted at 19:04h in Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Miscellaneous, New Acquisitions, New Products, Salvages, Uncategorized by Eric

original lexington hotel (clinton j. warren, 1892) red glazed figural terra cotta loggia corner panel fabricated by the northwestern terra cotta company, chicago, ills. the identity of the face is not known. if you look closely, you can see the corner panel in john vinci's kodachrome...