It's been waaaaaaaaay too long since I visited Pilsen

Nordlie hive activate! E.H. Nordlie on the permit for 8501 S. Bishop (1928-29), with these sweet-ass staggered stairway windows.

some housing

“Fuck ICE!” as seen on the old Grace’s Furniture Building at 2616-18 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago’s Logan Square.

I love these buildings, and this sector of Chicago’s economy. U.S. Spice Mills is a 40-year-old spice wholesaler. A google search brings up tons of import data and it’s crazy to see shipments like “10000 kg dehydrated whole coriander seed”.

some random ghost signs I’ve spotted in #chicago #pics #photo #ghostsign #ghostsigns #old #history #historic #city #urban #midwest #urbex #vintage #retro #architecture #building #buildings #street #streets #iphone #walking #art

A little (okay, big) half-timbering treat for the weekend. 7616 Rogers Ave., ca. 1915?

A showstopper of a Midcentury Modern design on an extremely eclectic block in Oak Park, & it isn't even the weirdest thing over there Oak Park, IL Architect: Donald Gibbs/Fred Schurecht, 1953

The longtime home of the legendary DJ, manager, and club owner Pervis Spann in Auburn Gresham. The house was originally designed by notable local architect Elmer Carlson in 1939, and Spann lived here from the late 1960s until his death in 2022. The place is still in his family's hands.

9739 S. Kedzie, Evergreen Park, Illinois, 1962

Finally saw this today with my own eyes: 3140 W. 99th Street, Evergreen Park. ca. 1967. It's called the Kiwi Condominiums. Building nerds extraordinaire @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social and @tudoraf.bsky.social conjecture that the architect was Carl Federici.

The chapel at North Park Village (1936, H.T. Liebert), seen earlier this beautiful April evening

4426 West Carroll Avenue

The building on the right has the creepiest cherubs ever. 3057 W. Jackson, Chicago

The gossip column in the Chicago Defender had no business being this damn messy

Just because it’s a dreary day, a little visual stimulation from the Roanoke Building. I love these grand mailboxes. The tile isn’t colorful, but those swirls!

PFISTER BG?, mystery sign at 154 W. Hubbard, I believe built in 1890 as 103-07 Michigan St., for someone not named Pfister (John Miller on ledger). Can't find name otherwise associated w/ building. A little help?

Omfg, the corbel table on 3305 Fremont Ave S., opened in 1928 as the New Ferne Apartments

Right around the corner from this guy is the former Ellis Gables. This luxurious building opened with maid service and elevators, plus carpeting & furnishings from Marshall Field & Co. La-di-DA! Architect: Harry Dalsey, 1929

It was a wonderful chunky time

earlier

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church (Dankmar Adler, 1899) is peak architecture. But give some love to its 1965 addition, at 4511 S. Vincennes, designed by Robert C. Taylor.

there he is... my beautiful boy,,,,

Chicagoland lovers of vegan scrumptiousness: Beacon Doughnuts pre-orders for Pączki Day (Tuesday!) are live, I repeat, LIVE. www.beacondoughnuts.com

Leaning Tower of Touhy, by Roger Brown American, 1941–1997 1980 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/97398

I followed the blue lights to this incredible door handle. 5836-40 N. St. Louis (Harry Johnson, 1937-38)

City living

1/2 Look at this house! LOOK AT IT! An utterly ridiculous, over-the-top design with an entire catalog of weird terra cotta friends on it. I think I'm in love. Architect: Kenneth T White, 1928 Oak Park, IL

Cadillac Wall Paper Company (b.1920's) Detroit, Wayne County Michigan. In the Riverbend neighborhood. 📸 Google Pixel 8 Pro #photography #architecture #oldbuildings #commercial #winter #snow #sunset #lightroom #urban #urbangaze #detroit #wayne #michigan

Rad, as we used to say in the 1980s, Pomo Revival at 454 E. 44th St. (Julian Dawson, 2006-07)

The Bronx, in Skokie, Illinois.

Tudor Revival in Oak Park, Illinois.

This article is fantastic! Here's another municipal device (inverted), from Mosaic School of Fine Arts, also found on other schools around town.

Platform Mosaic, Blackhorse Road Underground Station 1968 Hans Unger www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blackhorse-r...

Claesposting

Look at that magnificent door disk. A dentist office in Litchfield, have not yet learned of the original use.

Live view of the Lincoln home a few days before Abe’s birthday

this school has a fascinating story it started as an elementary, they added on to make a junior high, they built the high school addition to encourage attendance they worked with students to make a schedule so kids still work and make wages to help their families and it was a community center

Brighton Park & McKinley Park

Warm and sunny enough this morning for a nice walk to the lake

Cathedral of St Mary, Newcastle Details from the 2006 stained glass window by Joseph A Nuttgens celebrating Newcastle's industrial heritage. • Ship building on the Tyne with the vessel towering over the worker’s terraced housing. • Pottery painting • Machining #StainedGlassSunday

Home and studio of noted suburban architect R. Harold Zook. The building was saved by preservationists and moved to a nearby Hinsdale park where the historical society is trying to turn it into a community space. Zook is best known for the Pickwick Theatre & St. Charles City Hall

Side street corner/courtyard revival apartment building! 2700-02 W. Estes/7100-10 N. Washtenaw (J. Mitchell Malter, 1929)

Side street corner/courtyard revival apartment building! 2700-02 W. Estes/7100-10 N. Washtenaw (J. Mitchell Malter, 1929)

Trade advertisement for Plexiglas facing panels, Rohm & Haas Co., Philadelphia, featuring installation at Har Mar Regional Shopping Center, Roseville, Minn. Progressive Architecture October 1964 Image: US Modernist Collection via @archive.org; archive.org/details/usmo...

1850 N. Humboldt Blvd., Chicago. Built in 1929, Raymond Gregori, architect. @tudoraf.bsky.social

The Ridge Historical Society is sending its 2 biggest nerds to this event tomorrow to infodump on the unsuspecting public. I will also be running a presentation that uses my own family archives to talk about how now more than ever it is incredibly important to preserve & tell our stories ourselves.

A three-flat divided on Ridge in Rogers Park

They're tearing down 900 S. Clinton, built for Union News Co. in 1929-30 (Ralph W. Varney & George S. Walter architects). Boooo! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Red Tailed Hawk (b.1930) Pontiac, Oakland County Michigan. In the Seminole Hills neighborhood. 📸 Google Pixel 8 Pro #photography #nightphotography #architecture #oldbuildings #houses #night #tudor #winter #snow #lightroom #urban #urbangaze #pontiac #oakland #michigan