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...
25
Jan
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....
01
Jan
pabst mansion pavilion – a rare surviving relic of the 1893 columbian exposition on its way to be dismantled again
the exterior buff-colored ornamental terra cotta 1893 world's fair pabst...
31
Dec
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE WORK OF ERIC J. NORDSTROM, URBAN REMAINS AND THE BLDG. 51 ARCHIVE IN 2023
note: the following links represent some of highlights accomplished in...
30
Dec
a detailed look at an unusual hodgepodge of victorian ornament adorning edward t. mix’s 1881 conroy building
the conroy building, located at 725-729 north milwaukee avenue, milwaukee,...
19
Dec
portals to the past: rediscovering charles b. atwood-designed gothic style ornament in d.h. burnham & company’s 1896 fisher building
portals to the past. original interior architectural ornament found in d.h....
19
Dec
photographic survey of robert bruce watson’s neoclassical style white glazed terra cotta central park avenue pumping station
series of detailed images of robert bruce watson's white glazed...
15
Dec
latest museum-quality american architectural artifacts and ephemera added to the bldg. 51 archive and eric j. nordstrom permanent collection
the following american architectural ornament joined the ever-expanding, chicago-based bldg....
05
Dec
historically impotant south side chicago richardsonian romanesque style swift mansion badly damaged in fire
photographic survey of edward morris house or swift mansion (1892,...
29
Nov
tunnel vision: a closer look at recently digitized early glass negatives of chicago’s old underground tunnel system
the bldg. 51 archive acquired some glass negatives taken by...
27
Nov
schoenhofen brewing company administration building (1886, adolph cudell, architect) and powerhouse (1902, schmidt, garden, and martin)
schoenhofen brewing company administration building (1886, adolph cudell, architect) and...
24
Nov
historically important gothic style exterior henry rohkam residence terra cotta fence segments join bldg. 51 museum archive
four original red slip-glazed gothic style exterior terra cotta fence...