606 walk featuring brutalist, Renaissance Revival, neo-eclectic, and Very Brick styles

MCM cousins in West Ridge, 2956 W. Bryn Mawr and 2814 W. Morse, both likely mid-1950s

Before the world knew Prince, he was just a kid in North Minneapolis learning piano by ear in this modest rambler. Now his childhood home has been recognized by the City as a local landmark. minneapolismn.gov/resident-services/property-housing/preservation/landmarks-districts/landmarks/nelson-house

There are few things I love more than a bonkers ass door surround on a residential entrance. Going hard AF just for the love of the game. Architect: W Mead Walter, 1908

Feeding my head, heart and soul with art and architecture downtown on a gorgeous fall day.

Old St. Joseph/St. Clare Hospital in Alton, a beautiful late art deco behemoth from 1937

Underrated maple tree foliage in Indian Boundary Park

Former J. Barabas Mens Wear, 1725 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago. The building was built in 1925, Worthmann & Steinbach, architects.

Literary technology in windows in SLU’s former library.

1733 W. Chicago Ave, Chicago. The building is from 1929, B. A. Comm, architect. That angry bats are so random.

Shop drawing of a terra cotta Schlitz belted globe insignia, likely destined to grace a tied house 📸 Northwestern Terra Cotta Collection, National Building Museum

Parallel lines

Oh. Hell. Yeah. Far South Side of Chicago, 9:14pm

Uh... AURORA BOREALIS!? AT THIS TIME OF YEAR, AT THIS TIME OF DAY, IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY, LOCALIZED ENTIRELY WITHIN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD?!

5046 West Chicago Avenue

Painted ladies in the snow, Oak Park, Illinois

Virulently opposed to November snow except for scenes like this

Former Spink's Menswear store, 4753 W. Madison, Chicago. The store had this great sign but I think there was a fire there within the last 10 years and the sign is gone. The building was built in 1923, Z. Erol Smith, architect.

Brisk East Side jaunt

I feel like I just found a gold nugget! During my daily streetview ambling I just now discovered a 1925 apartment building designed by RM Schindler that was thought to have been demolished for the 101 freeway. But it wasn’t! It was *moved.* (first screenshot is from US Modernist)

@everylotchicago.bsky.social so dang good on the 900 block of N. Lavergne, had to look these 2-flats up. 906-48 N. Lavergne, 1914-16 (Ernest N. Braucher, architect)

Buckingham Fountain at Night, 1960s

I don't use the phrase "hardcore whimsy" lightly

went for a walk, happened upon a beautiful castle guarded by shields and gates Austin High School, chicago public schools

The unfuckablewith fascia, and some midcentury tile, from 6435 N. California, built as the Northtown branch of CPL, ca. 1962 (Paul Gerhardt Jr., architect). Currently houses a refugee aid organization.

full moon, Chicago style #aic #dailylakeglass

stained glass should be in more schools schurz high school front office, chicago public schools

four for today: election tuesday

Another beauty, taken that same day. West Ridge, I was entirely unfamiliar with your rather enchanting game. Architect: George Maher, 1911

It must feel really good for the building to get re-stuccoed like this.

1436 N 51ST ST, 53208 Year Built: 1923 Zoning: Two-Family Residential 3 [RT3] Assessment: $284,600 Neighborhood: WASHINGTON HEIGHTS

He's just a little guy

Earlier

Summer tentatively over in Lincolnwood

this city is so great in the fall when it comes

I biked around Budlong Woods and Albany Park, stopping almost constantly to admire.

Background: The Peoples Gas Education Pavilion, designed by Studio Gang. Foreground: The beavers’ lodge, designed by the beavers. 🦫

Me and a nerd friend conversating about spandrels

still there

A pumpkin in Uptown

Scary building faces for the holiday 💀

The vacant, former Hanig’s Footwear at the base of the Hancock Center is like a Donald Judd

Computer, enhance (the back of 9433-37 S. 86th Ct, built ca. 1976)

Greystoooooooooone 2-flats, 1511-39 S. Central Park Ave., permitted in 1906.

wound my way through the bronx today

Pinwheels.

The Kingston Arms (1924-25), on the National Registry of Historic Places since 1999. nara-media.s3.amazonaws.com/electronic-r...

Sunset in Albany Park, Chicago - 10.27.25

One LA Block: 100’s N Sycamore