bldg. 51 museum acquires exceptionally rare 1930 american stoveboard catalog with louis h. sullivan-designed board
original 1930 american stoveboard company catalog (i've been searching for...
23
Feb
20
Feb
the athens on the prairie: photographing columbus, indiana
images taken during a 2-3 hour window while traveling through...
19
Feb
revisting 19th and early 20th century racine, wisconsin architecture in 2024
architectural images taken during a brief visit to racine, wisc....
16
Feb
part one: documenting richard haas’s 1980 “homage to the chicago school” mural executed by jeff greene and evergreen outdoor advertising
detailed images of american muralist richard haas's "homage to the...
16
Feb
exterior and interior photographic survey of pond and pond’s purdue memorial union (1924)
a partial selection of eric j. nordstrom photographic images of...
12
Feb
latest photographic images from 2024 chicago architectural ornament survey
late 2023-early 2024 photographic images from bldg. 51 archive's chicago...
04
Feb
digitization of newly acquired massive kodachrome collection – spanning decades – devoted to chicago architecture in progress
digitization of a massive mixed bag of chicago architecture images...
01
Feb
bruce price’s eternal monument or “doric tomb” to skyscraper builder george a. fuller
George A. Fuller (October 21, 1851 – December 14, 1900) was...
28
Jan
photographic images from architectural ornament survey across american cities in winter of 2023-2024
latest 2023-2024 photographic images from bldg. 51 archive's architectural ornament...
26
Jan
bell building and other historically important chicago building brochures join bldg. 51 archive
original 1924 saddle-stitched bell building booklet distributed to prospective building...
25
Jan
pretty in pink: 1892 schiller building or garrick theater auditorium plaster “starpod” with early 1950s painted finish added to bldg. 51 museum
the louis h. sullivan and frank l. wright-designed ornamental plaster...
20
Jan
several original important museum-quality stanley tigerman cased architectural presentation models join bldg. 51 collection
stanley tigerman studied at massachusetts institute of technology, but flunked...
19
Jan
bldg. 51 and urban remains secure large selection of emblematic and monogrammed hardware from historically important american buildings
a sizable collection of custom-designed commerical door hardware was recently...
18
Jan
eric j. nordstrom’s memoir entitled afterlife: stories of salvaging ornament from historically important demolished 19th and early 20th century chicago-based buildings coming in 2025
eric j. nordstrom's new book on his unrelenting efforts in...
18
Jan
a pictorial survey of john edelmann-designed architectural ornament housed in the bldg. 51 museum collection
john h. edelmann (1852–1900) was a socialist-anarchist who worked as...
11
Jan
urban remains showroom and bldg. 51 museum: weekly arrivals ramping up in winter of 2024
with a surprisingly large number of frequent acquisitions populating both...
11
Jan
latest urban remains acquisitions for winter of 2023-2024
the following image gallery offers a glimpse at the latest...
08
Jan
visual record of weese reconstructing wright’s francisco terrace (1895) in 1978
contact sheet images of frank lloyd wright’s francisco terrace (1895)...
06
Jan
1902 henry l. newhouse-designed southside chicago greystone’s future uncertain after devastating fire
i haven't had time to do my research on a...
01
Jan
louis h. sullivan’s 1914 newark bank revisited.
sullivan's newark revisited. images of home building association bank building....