urban remains and bldg. 51 museum collection acquired terra cotta ornament from walter bailey-designed knights of pythias building
urban remains and bldg. 51 recently acquired several sections of...
22
Sep
21
Sep
‘Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan and Wright’ revisits razed icons
'Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan and Wright'...
20
Sep
louis sullivan’s schlesinger and meyer building through images and ornament
images with captions below: foundation work on d.h. burnham &...
16
Sep
thieves were hung and brained: an unusually and graphic account of the great chicago fire of 1871
the bldg. 51 museum recently acquired two unusual chicago fire...
14
Sep
senseless destruction of the neoclassical style lakeview state bank building (1921)
photographic survey of lakeview state bank building's demise. the restrained...
08
Sep
a selection of images and ephemera culled from the bldg. 51 vast architectural archive
the following images represent a well rounded cross section of...
07
Sep
photographic survey of 19th and 20th century architecture in kalamazoo, michighan
one of several posts documenting 19th and early 20th century...
07
Sep
a photographic record of ruination and restoration in la crosse, wisc.
all images courtesy of eric j. nordstrom and the bldg....
07
Sep
adler and sullivan’s schiller building facade loggia partially rebuilt at second city in 1961
bernie sahlins (one of the founders of second city) secured...
03
Sep
beginning, end and rebirth of adler & sullivan’s chicago stock exchange building trading room
[caption id="attachment_34568" align="alignleft" width="1200"] new york-based harper's weekly covers opening...
01
Sep
simultaneous destruction of a chicago workers cottage, sullivanesque building, and neoclassical bank building
the three structures have been completely destroyed since the time...
01
Sep
examples of terra cotta ornament executed by the winkle terra cotta company from the bldg. 51 archive
the st. louis-based winkle terra cotta co., with offices in...
01
Sep
strange ornament (not sullivan): a photographic study of adler and sullivan’s desenberg building (1885)
photographic study of adler and sullivan’s dessenberg & company building...
28
Aug
a selection of architectural artifacts and objects discovered and documented from disfigured and/or demolished buildings
a virtual gallery consisting of hundreds of architectural artifacts (several...
25
Aug
continued neglect takes its toll on j.l. silsbee’s shuttered bandstand in garfield park
photographic study meticulously documenting the sad state of j.l. silsbee's...
24
Aug
burnham and root brain dump: a repository of architectural images, artifacts and ephemera
the bldg. 51 archive has amassed several images, artifacts and...
23
Aug
william gray purcell-designed grave markers in forest home cemetery
finally made my way over to forest home cemetery to...
22
Aug
extensive repository of 19th century chicago workers cottage building materials housed in bldg. 51 museum archive
images of the 19th century balloon frame "specimen" library for...
18
Aug
hiding in plain sight: surviving remnants of 1893 world’s columbian exposition in jackson park
the following images carefully document (in great detail) surviving remnants...
18
Aug
bldg. 51 museum archive houses one of the largest repositories of historically important “sullivanesque” terra cotta
the bldg. 51 museum's extensive collection of late 19th and...