Indiana Dunes State Park historic gate house

Always.

Always RT the Guardian Building

1917 🤝 1940, Clark and Lunt

Vegetation in receptacles, nos. 19 and 20, 1753 W. Pratt.

One of the great things about being an architecture nerd is learning things from other architecture nerds. A while ago I heard @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social and @tudoraf.bsky.social talking about Batchelder tiles. I had never heard of them.

Shadows and brick. Oak Park, Illinois

Benton freaking Harbor, MI

Lake forever, abolish ICE now & forever

Lotsa layers at the side entrance of Chief O’Neill’s, 3471 N. Elston, opened as a drug store around 1905

today's theme, always look up

Dr George W Carr mansion, 1885, architect Edward I. Nickerson. I always liked this angle the best. Truly bonkers

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA Button Block Building (1892) on Water and Clybourn

Getta load of these dorks (complimentary), 404-06 E. 51st

Holy shit Chicago

Penobscot Building (b.1927) Detroit, Wayne County Michigan. 📸 Google Pixel 8 Pro #photography #night #nightphotography #digitalart #lightroom #architecture #artdeco #oldbuildings #skyscrapers #lights #urban #urbangaze #urbanex #detroit #wayne #michigan #puremichigan

Same cladding on ground floor of 1034 N. Milwaukee! Scant corroboration but I suspect was added in renovation at the end of Prohibition, design by Presto. Rest of building permitted in 1885 at 698-704 Milwaukee (Theodore Karls, architect).

#FormerTavernFriday 735 S. Western Ave., Chicago

Signs of the impact of Piping Plovers on this town are everywhere. Uptown Branch Library, the mural by Dorian Sylvain.

Gothic Entrance B, a Northwestern Terra Cotta Catalog stock design on a 1928 building in North Lawndale

This is a head-scratcher. 2445 W. Lexington, Chicago. The ownership history includes famed preservationist William Lavicka. yochicago.com/master-archi...

The is an 'Honest repair' as it has the date and doesn't match the original. Personally, I think the date is enough, and the pargetting could have been remade too. Otherwise we could eventually have a world of bland walls. #Likeforlikerepairs

Rosedale Park (b.1937 & 1927) Detroit, Wayne County Michigan. 📸 Minolta Maxxum 7000i 🎞️ Kodak Gold #photography #film #filmphotography #believeinfilm #architecture #oldbuildings #tudor #houses #35mm #grandriver #trees #urbangaze #urbanex #urban #rosedalepark #detroit #wayne #michigan

wrote about a deteriorating paper box factory built in the keeney industrial district, developed next to the milwaukee road’s former galewood yard by an industrial land trust 1940, carroll f. morrison www.postcard-past.com/eagle-paper-...

I took a gazillion photos of the house during its estate sale in March. I dedicate my photos of the Art Deco-inspired glass block basement bar and the martini glass tiled flooring to @dmercer.bsky.social. It was such a cool house!

A37: California Hallway, c. 1940, by Designed by Narcissa Niblack Thorne American, 1882-1966 c. 1940 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/45418

I live by this building & always wonder at its ornate, richly glazed facade. Turns out it’s listed in 1887 (under old address) as the Hatterman Safety Deposit Vault Company. Current structure was built ≈1895. Then in 1912 architects Frohman & Jebsen redesigned the facade as a 3-story bank building

Really, a castle to fit all budgets or situations

212 E Franklin St U4, 23219 Total - $242,000.00 Dwelling - $197,000.00 Land - $45,000.00 Lot Sq Ft - 0.0 Type - R Condo Residential <11 Units Taxable - Yes Year Built - 1930 Map - https://www.google.com/maps/place/212+E+Franklin+St+U4+RICHMOND+VA+23219

she's still there, park district view

Guy whose only experience w/ STL architecture is vague but nice memories of @chickenjoestl.bsky.social‘s incredible posts on the old site: 2117 W. Lunt, definitely giving St. Louis vibes. (D.H. Burnham & Co., 1913)

NEW — Social justice artist Tonika Lewis Johnson stopped by The TRiiBE Studio in Chicago to talk about her latest project, UnBlocked Englewood, an arts-driven beautification project providing home repairs on blocks directly impacted by predatory housing practices. thetriibe.com/2026/05/insi...

pretty #buildings I saw while walking near a friend’s apt in lakeview! #chicago #photo #photography #architecture #historic #church #history #preservation #midwest #design #stainedglass #apartment #brick #neighborhood #city #urban #street #home #house #walk #walking

RIP Schlitz

Chicago history & building people: Any ideas for where I could learn more about the business on this ticket? I think the (pretty, terra-cotta) building is still standing. It looks like an interesting piece of women's history & I'm wondering if there were more businesses like it.

Walking down my street when suddenly, monk parakeets! Maybe this means we have a nest in the neighborhood this year.

Omg, it's three little shields holding hands 🥹

1/3 I'm in a love/hate relationship with this building. I love what's still there, but hate that the best part is gone, & gone forever. I originally thought this corner section had been reclad in the name of modernization, but nope. Demolished in the 1960s. Old Pics: Blue Island Historical Society

Vegetation in a receptacle, no. 18, Blue Island

I Palindrome I (b.1929) Detroit, Wayne County Michigan. In the Fitzgerald/Marygrove neighborhood. 📸 Google Pixel 8 Pro #photography #digitalart #lightroom #architecture #oldbuildings #tudor #tudorrevival #houses #urban #urbanex #urbangaze #detroit #wayne #michigan

Harlem Ave

My highlights from our walk on Vincennes from Blue Island to 69th St. ...

Four Schlitz Tied House buildings. Chicago, IL.

mather high school opened in 1959, designed by Loebl Schlossman & Bennett the architecture firm is also known for water tower place, two prudential plaza, and dearborn homes as one of the architects noted, "the most exciting thing about the world is that it can change."

Walking Vincennes with @nikhunder.com and some other nerds. Winneconna Parkway an oasis.

All that stack bond white brick made me curious. Built ca. 1963 after urban renewal evicted 2,952 folks living in the area (per land clearance commission report). Map from 1950, pic from CPL. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ui...

it’s been a decade since i was last here but i think about the richmond main street station like once a month

So sometimes a church can just be a really good wall

Vegetation in receptacle, no. 17, Union Station

idyllic scenes in Humboldt Park