Rooftops, by Phillip Chen American, born 1953 1976 More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/60536

Get thee to the Alma Thomas exhibit at the Smart Museum! Curatorial excellence in timing for exhibit, with many of the abstract paintings inspired by space exploration or flowers.

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Being a contrarian, went to Hyde Park to appreciate the magnolias

4264 boulevard Dorchester Ouest Built in 1895. 1 unit. 2 stories. 256 m2.

Magnolias!

Every Lot Chicago hyping Will Quam's new book press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Grand Staircase, St. Pancras Station

Apologies for another plug (it won’t be the last…), but in case you missed it, here is my write up from my April 2025 pilgrimage to Hilversum Town Hall. Have you been? If not, I highly recommend it! lccmunicipal.com/2026/04/10/h...

The Belvidere Apartments, constructed in 1927 in a largely low density part of Hammond, Indiana, was the city's first modern fireproof apartment building as well as its first full service "apartment hotel". Units came fully furnished (complete with cutlery!) and the building employed a maid service.

St. Bartholomew’s Gatehouse, London, 1595

Spring is springing

Who doesn't appreciate a decorative bell tower? Scoundrels, that's who. 4701-03 N. St. Louis (1926).

What a nice letterhead. The Duck Brand Co.! I came across this in the Chicago City Council Proceedings Files from 1900.

Vegetation in receptacle no. 6, Ashland and Farwell

The Parthenon of Pilsen

Canterbury Museum; designed by architect and City surveyor AH Campbell in Tudor Revival in 1897. James George Beaney donated £10,000 and Canterbury City Council added £5000 so that the new building could accommodate the city's existing museum and library.

5511 W MARTIN DR, 53208 Year Built: 1929 Zoning: Multi-Family Residential 5 [RM5] Assessment: $771,100 Neighborhood: WICK FIELD

Adjacent to Belgravia Court is St. James Court which is not fully pedestrianized and features larger residences/lots. A wild mix of single-family homes and pretty grand apartment buildings.

Pearl, Illinois Population 103

400 West Market (1992) in Louisville, designed by John Burgee.

Spring green

Tudor Revival and polychrome terra cotta, natural allies at 150-170 Claremont Ave., NY, NY

I got you

332 North Hamlin Avenue

5825 W. Division St., Chicago. The former Ambassador and then Rockne Theatre was built in 1925, Harold Gallup, architect. The New Inspirational Baptist Church has had a home here for 40 years. www.wbez.org/architecture...

Not me seeing this and thinking it a charming mix of English and (nonsense) Italian, Penalty Iiforii Removal, smdh #ManholeCoverMonday

Cherry blossoms are such ephemeral, temperamental little beauties. So glad I made it out to Jackson Park to see them today.

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Gotta be Detroit. The skyscrapers are fun, but I fell instantly & irrevocably in love with the incredible exuberance & creativity of the 1920s era residential designs. Boston-Edison Historic District Detroit, Michigan

Detroit!

Great sign alert

Vegetation in receptacles nos. 4 and 5, NYC.

A home movie from the Glick family's Passover Seder, c. 1939, likely shot in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood in the two-room apartment at the New Lawrence Hotel where Jack & Dorothy Glick lived with their two children. Jack immigrated to Chicago from Ukraine and ran a bar and cigar shop at the hotel.

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Roseland Station post office (John C. Bollenbacher under the supervision of Louis A. Simon, 1935) has two siblings in Chicago - Pilsen Station and Logan Station - but none of them still have their original front doors. Roseland just got new doors after the previous set was damaged.

Berwyn garage

One from this account's first muse, William C. Presto: the renovation and addition (1934-45) to the Schlitz tied house at 5120 N. Broadway

5101 W WASHINGTON BL, 53208 Year Built: 1922 Zoning: Two-Family Residential 3 [RT3] Assessment: $409,900 Neighborhood: WASHINGTON HEIGHTS

A short thread of some prairie homes in a small enclave at the western edge of Riverside (1/5)

This is Harold Washington Library State and Van Buren

canal forever problems for now

No Kings includes this asshole near the Viagra Triangle

Wee modern at 6042 N. Campbell, ca. 1955

Breeze block! Karavan Motel, 1620 S. Cicero, Cicero, Illinois.

Always RT the Guardian Building

Carroll Avenue at Clark Street

Fruit bowl* near Talman and Granville. (*Or bouquet, can't really tell.)

Some 1960s Chicago townhouses. Top to bottom: Pei & Weese (1969), Anderson & Battles (1967), Keck & Keck (1969), Tigerman & Koglin (1964).

Gambreling along on West End Ave, all built 1906-1907.