recent restoration images - taken in mid-december of 2025 - of joseph lyman silsbee's bandstand (1897) located at west music court in garfield park. the four-sided structure is faced with white marble supplied by the georgia marble company.the uniquely designed stamped or pressed copper dome with...
note: the following links represent some highlights accomplished in 2024. the posts are arranged chronologically, from beginning of 2025 to end of year. as 2025 draws to a close, i culled the the work of eric j. nordstrom, urban remains, and the bldg. 51 archive to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...