latest salvage chicago architectural acquisitions now available through urban remains online catalog
the following gallery offers a glimpse at the most recent...
24
Apr
24
Apr
back-to-back chicago apartment building demolition on west belmont
two early 20th century chicago apartment buildings adorned with bedford...
massive 19th century chicago “night scavenger” dumpsite unearthed in west town
according to 19th century chicago public health reports, periodicals (e.g.,...
17
Apr
post-fire chicago italianate on orchard street reduced to rubble
the 1870's post-fire italianate style rowhouse with original bracketed wood...
16
Apr
a collaboration between the bldg. 51 archive and chicago art institute’s ryerson & burnham archive
inspired by spending the past several months organizing and digitizing...
12
Apr
an unexpected tour of south side chicago with tim samuelson and john vinci
images from an unexpected tour of the south side of...
11
Apr
downtown chicago from tribune tower in 1933
group of images taken from the tribune building on 11-12-1933....
09
Apr
latest digitized kodachrome slides from the john vinci archive
[caption id="attachment_36637" align="alignleft" width="2807"] 1961 richard nickel kodachrome slide of...
06
Apr
the death of a south side chicago comed substation is on the horizon
a permit to demolish the southside chicago comed substation (1924)...
04
Apr
bldg. 51 musuem acquires historically important terra cotta from three adler & sullivan buildings
taking on more projects when already burned out beyond belief...
31
Mar
post-fire italianate rowhouse on orchard on its way out
update from a previous post documenting the death of 2252...
28
Mar
latest installment of digitized images from the bldg. 51 museum archive
the following collection of historically important photographic images - now...
26
Mar
former morton salt building undergoing demolition
by eric j. nordstrom and ornament chicago the five story concrete...
23
Mar
historially important windows from burnham & root’s palmer v. kellogg mansion (1883) join bldg. 51 museum collection
a matching set of original richly colored stained interior residential...
16
Mar
a private collection of richard nickel kodachromes now digitized
i've had the privilege to carefully pour over and digitize...
15
Mar
five images of ornament extracted from historically important buildings
five distinct, historically important pieces of ornament, salvaged from buildings...
14
Mar
two early 20th century two-flats on claremont avenue issued wrecking permits
two early 20th century chicago two-flats were issued demolition permits...
09
Mar
latest salvaged artifacts recently added to urban remains virtual online catalog
the following gallery offers a glimpse at the most recent...
08
Mar
burnham, root, and atwood’s reliance building in 1987
burnham, root, and atwoood's reliance building (1890-1895) as it looked...
05
Mar
village theater’s polychrome terra cotta facade stays, but the building’s auditorium goes
work has begun on village theater (built as the germania...