17 Dec

dave felling salvage images of stephen v. shipman’s italianate style elgin state hospital & the northern illinois hospital and asylum for the insane (1874) taken during demolition in 1993

dave felling salvage images of stephen v. shipman's italianate style...

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16 Dec

flizikowski and kaiser’s german evangelical lutheran church (1896) in the throes of death

latest demolition images of flizikowski and kaiser's german evangelical lutheran...

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12 Dec

bdg. 51 museum secures historically important oversized lincoln memorial building (1909) hand-applied polychromatic glazed terra cotta panel sculpted by kristian schneider

gargantuan salesman sample. bdg. 51 museum secures historically important oversized lincoln...

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11 Dec

additional images documenting bronze church bell extraction from flizikowski and kaiser’s german evangelical lutheran church (1896), located at 2028 north richmond street, chicago, il.

additional images taken during removal of historically important church bell...

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08 Dec

historic church bell successfully extracted from flizikowski and kaiser’s german evangelical lutheran church (1896)

sequential photo-documentation of lightly embossed bronze church bell extraction from...

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07 Dec

interior and exterior images of bruce goff’s sam and ruth van sickle ford house (1949)

mostly iphone interior and exterior images of bruce goff's sam...

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03 Dec

photographic survey of the churh bell before it’s extraction from flizikowski and kaiser’s german evangelical lutheran church (1896)

photographic survey of church bell before it's extraction from flizikowski...

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02 Dec

flizikowski and kaiser’s german evangelical lutheran church (1896) demolition well underway

the destruction of german evangelical lutheran church (1896), located at...

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30 Nov

john kent russell house ornament salvaged by eric j. nordstrom of urban remains on display at art institute of chicago

it was nice to see architectural ornament salvaged by me...

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26 Nov

a rare opportunity to carefully document helmet jahn’s postmodern spacetime gridded conference room on top floor of giaver and dinkelberg’s 40-story jewelers building

spacetime curvature grid. recent photographic survey of helmet jahn's 40th floor...

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25 Nov

urban remains joins forces with logan square preservation to salvage architectural elements from german evangelical lutheran church (1896) during its demolition

salvage operation in progress. updates with information on church history...

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21 Nov

giaver and dinkelberg-designed jewelers building (1927) lobby ornament detail

detailed photographic survey of giaver and dinkelberg's 1927-28 jewelers building...

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21 Nov

2016 eric j. nordstrom photographic images of building parts in burnham and root’s rookery building “vault”

raw and unedited 2016 images of "the vault" in the...

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20 Nov

as 2025 draws to a close, urban remains remains the last standing “salvage” shop in the chicagoland area

  over the past twenty years i've seen one architectural...

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20 Nov

data dump: raw and unedited images of urban remains salvaging d. h. burnham’s 21-story continental and commercial national bank building in 2008

unedited 2008 interior salvage images of d.h. burnham and company's...

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19 Nov

data dump: raw and unedited images of congress theater’s 1926 attic as it appeared in winter of 2017

raw and unedited images of congress theater's attic, taken in the...

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19 Nov

still there, but mostly forgotten: 2025 exterior images of walter burley griffin’s 1908 cornell store and flats

exterior images of walter burley griffin's prairie style limestone and...

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18 Nov

revisting william phillip doerr’s jeffery theater (1923) lobby as it appeared in 2014

revisting william phillip doerr's jeffery theater (1923) lobby as it...

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18 Nov

historically important glass negatives of kristian schneider’s sculpted clay building ornament models for northwestern and american terra cotta companies now digitzed

a collection of original and historially important late 19th and...

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17 Nov

ten years later, i’m still holding the torch: wrecking on wells street in 2015

note: any and all images in this post are raw...

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