08 Oct

red slip-glazed terra cotta ornament salvaged from alfred freret’s la crosse post office (1889) joins bld. 51 museum collection

historic american building survey (habs) images of william alfred freret's...

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07 Oct

photographic survey of geoerge maher’s john c. scales house and its silsbee-esque stonework

photographic survey of george maher's american victorian style john c....

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05 Oct

exterior detail images of wheelock and thomas’s downtown chicago post-fire bryant building or delaware block

detail images of wheelock and thomas's downtown chicago post-fire bryant...

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02 Oct

slipped through the cracks: another downtown chicago sullivanesque building left for dead is quickly destroyed

slipped through the cracks: what remained of william j. brinkman's kuntz-remmler...

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02 Oct

hammond, beeby and babka’s bastardized take on the chicago school in the form of a grossly gargantuan public library

exterior detail images of hammond, beeby, and babka's 10-story harold...

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30 Sep

after nearly 7 years of documenting frank lloyd wright’s a.d. german warehouse, it’s now open to the public for tours

after nearly seven years documenting restoration of frank lloyd wright's...

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26 Sep

demolition of the damen silos – the last standing concrete “stacker of wheat”

demolition images of the sante fe grain elevator or "damen...

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24 Sep

severance at its finest: 19th century two story masonry rowhouse punctuated with patented frear or “artifical” stone and corbelled arch brick cornice

severance at its finest. ...

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22 Sep

fridstein and company’s 1926 congress theater in logan square continue to crumble nearly 8 years after my last visit

i haven't returned to congress theater (fridstein and company, 1926)...

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20 Sep

george elmslie-designed terra cotta now for sale through collaboration between bldg. 51 museum and city museum

more to follow in coming weeks. ...

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19 Sep

photographic survey of roseland’s sullivanesque style american ideal cleaning company

recent exterior survery of sullivanesque style single story american ideal...

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19 Sep

clumsy classicism and soot city: bld 51 museum joins forces with casalino archive to showcase newly discovered kodachromes of cobb’s post office and surrounding buildings as they appeared in 1965

the bld. 51 museum is collaborating with the chicago-based casalino...

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15 Sep

2025 photographic survey of parker berry’s 1915 sullivanesque style first state bank of manilus

2025 photographic study of parker berry's two-story first state bank...

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11 Sep

solon s. beman’s red brick and rusticated lemont limestone holy rosary roman catholic church (1890)

recent images of solon s. beman's red brick and rusticated...

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10 Sep

an afternoon photographing gary, indiana with urban documentarian camilo josé vergara

weekend images taken during my weekend "tour" of gary, indiana,...

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07 Sep

restored montgomery ward administration building tower “century of progress” statue returns to its perch

before and after: ...

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04 Sep

urban remains and bld. 51 museum secure salvage rights to walter burley griffin’s 1913 frank a. hindes house

last? salvage images of notable prairie school architect walter burley griffin's...

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04 Sep

exterior detail survey of hugh garden-designed third church of christ scientist (1899-1901)

late summer 2025 detail images of hugh garden's richly ornamented...

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03 Sep

important great chicago fire of 1871 “relics” added to ever-growing bldg. 51 museum collection

original pocket-sized "souvenir" medal representing the first anniversary of the...

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01 Sep

many shades of color: michaelsen and rognstad’s on leong merchants association building (1928) terra cotta ornament

exterior photographic survey of michaelsen & rognstad's on leong merchants...

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