after years of abandonment and neglect, joseph lyman silsbee’s garfield park bandstand rebuilt and restored to its former glory
absolutely thrilling to witness/document silsbee's bandstand returning to its former...
12
Jun
11
Jun
latest historically important building artifacts and ephemera added to bldg. 51 museum collection in summer 2025
the following american architectural ephermera joined the ever-expanding, chicago-based bldg....
11
Jun
exterior survey of george whiffin and william wright-designed house of david hotel in summer of 2025
2025 exterior photographic survery of the four-story, steel-framed george whiffen...
09
Jun
detail images of henry c. koch-designed copper-plated ironwork within milwaukee city hall’s 8-story skylit atrium
interior detail images of henry c. koch's flemish renaissance revival...
30
May
“a little st. sophia:” frank lloyd wright’s 1956 annunciation greek orthodix church
exterior photographic survey of frank lloyd wright's annunciation greek orthodox...
28
May
photographic study of recycled elmslie ornament: claude and starck’s prairie style 1915 lincoln school
recent exterior photographic survey of claude and starck's yellow brick...
20
May
a look back at the images documenting “reconstructing the garrick: adler and sullivan’s lost masterpiece” exhibit held at wrightwood 659 in 2021-2022
revisiting images i took documenting the installation of the "reconstructing...
15
May
important building ornament from chicago’s mecca flats and reebie storage warehouse join bld. 51 museum collection
an original custom-designed, black enameled ornamental cast iron interior angled...
12
May
after the 1893 chicago world’s fair: magnue melander’s photographic documentation of the “dead white city”
unpublished louis magnue melander photographic images (scanned from recently discovered...
09
May
recently discovered images of adler and sullivan’s 1892-93 transportation building in the “dead white city”
the following images - scanned/digitized directly from original glass plate...
02
May
recently found unedited images of harold zook’s salerno cookie factory demolition in 2015
on saturday afternoon i arrived at the salerno cookie factory,...
01
May
detailed photographic study of 1928 jewelers building gilded copper father time clock
father time. the figural clock with nicely aged gilded copper patina...
30
Apr
the bldg. 51 archive acquires a massive collection of early 20th century building trade magazine terra cotta advertisements
the bldg. 51 archive recently amassed a large collection of...
30
Apr
rock and roll is dead: images of stanley tigerman’s boarded up downtown chicago hardrock cafe
rock 'n' roll is dead. recent images of stanley tigerman's boarded...
28
Apr
leafy limestone ornament: photographic survey of faber and pagels’s romanesque revival style thalia hall (1892)
detail photographic images (taken in april of 2025) of faber...
24
Apr
photographic survey of eero saarinen’s mit chapel inside and out during 2017 trip to boston, mass.
2017 photographic images of eero saarinen's mit chapel (1955-56) located...
22
Apr
revisting the remnants of stephen v. shipman’s presbyterian hospital (1888) demolished in 2016
demolition images of stephen v. shipman's 1888 daniel a. jones...
21
Apr
a near miss: revisiting george l. pfeiffer’s vorwaerts turner hall (1896) at time it was facing demolition in 2007
data dump, 2007. rediscovered unedited images taken of george l. pfeiffer's...
19
Apr
herman v. von holst’s 1924 southside chicago comed power station continues to crumble
latest images of the dying southside chicago comed station (1924),...
17
Apr
long lost cache of glass negatives taken by chicago photographer fred g. korth discovered and digitized by bldg. 51 archive
small selection of depression-era (mostly) photographic images (scanned from original...