when ade bethune was just 23, she worked with a pro-union priest south of pittsburgh and unemployed steelworkers to design a church for the catholic proletariat during the depression

church of the slovak rail car workers joseph molitor, ss. cyril and methodius church, chicago, il (1915)

city of steel som, inland steel building, chicago, il (1956-58)

can you tell there was a sale on green paint? st. stanislaus kostka polish rc church, michigan city, in (1916-26)

my new article on the clairton steelworkers who designed and built a church from scraps as they organized the first steel union in the country

the brick facades of manistee, michigan

who’s your rust belt crush? 👀🏭

peak 80s design from the lake placid olympics

update: the ice chapel at notre dame has stained glass

rust belt snowtrip

the most beautiful grave in warsaw jerzy nowosielski, grave of rev. jerzy klinger, orthodox cemetery, warsaw, pl (1978)

Happening now, Gavin Moulton presents his paper "The Slavic Church System: The Architecture and Political Economy of Slavic Churches in Industrial America" at our Eastern European Catholicism in America panel. #ACHA26 #AHA26 @historians.org @aschurchhistory.bsky.social

sgrafitto patterns of warsaw pt. ii

Former Jackson Storage & Moving Co of La Grange, IL -- you in danger, girl. AGAIN. Thought saved, this building is again up for demo, & this time a reprieve will not be coming. Jackson was rolling in dough by the 20s, & hired warehouse king John Kingsley to modernize this older building in 1924.

sgrafitto patterns in warsaw

really into these polish folk nouveau patterns

this church goes insanely hard mary queen of poland, lublin, pl (1981-87)

coastal corbusier adolfo de pertis, church of the rosary, capo di sorrento, it (1971-72)

Love the Catholic Social Teaching window at St. John’s in Utica, featuring Pope Leo XIII holding Rerum Novarum, which talks about the right of workers to form unions. At the the bottom are workers of various kinds and in the middle are union members and management reaching an accord.

eclipse in a concrete sky church of s. bernardo alle termi, rome, it (1598-1600)

rome lately

metro systems built from scratch in italy since 1990: naples, turin, brescia, catania

a church sculpted from light angelo mangiarotti and bruno morassutti, n.s. della misericordia, milan, it (1956-57)

losing my marbles in rome

borromini go brrr

the nowa huta of rome—quartiere don bosco

croatian mosaics in rome jozo kljaković, pontifical croatian college mosaics, rome, it (ca. 1940s)

concrete sanctuary luigi figini e gino pollini, ss. giovanni e paolo, milan, it (1964-68)

blue buildings of milan

ceilings of the villa d’este

st. joseph covering the world in steel frank vittor, homestead, pa (1966)

the masterpieces of ivan meštrović in rome

the masterpieces of ivan meštrović in rome

vestiges of belle époque milan

vestiges of belle époque milan

the concrete castle bbpr, torre velasca, milan, it (1955-57)

concrete curves mariarosa zibetti ribaldone, s. paolo apostolo, gallarate, it (1968-73)

Made the pilgrimage to see Z Erol Smith’s polychrome pièce de résistance, one of Chicago terra cotta nerdom’s most revered sites

the san carlo alle quattro fontane of modernism

brutalist necropolis luigi ciapparella, new cemetery, busto arsizio, it (1975)

completely lost in these cosmati floors

domes lost to the mine fire centralia's orthodox church—demolished in 1986

⛏️ 👩 New DePOT blog: Monika Glosowitz shares the stories of women in Silesian mining families

ukrainian churches in the rust belt

When I was a kid, I loved to spend hours looking at maps and atlases, such as the Italian Touring Club 1:200.000 Road Atlas, and I was always mesmerized by the shape of mountain roads and railways, particularly the Sardinian narrow gauge network and its jagged shape.

rome does eco-brutalism better franco tamburini and mauro archini, apartment in via salaria, rome, it (1975-77)

rome does eco-brutalism better franco tamburini and mauro archini, apartment in via salaria, rome, it (1975-77)

we need to return to shaming evil capitalists in church murals

retro roman fonts pt. iii

abstraction in seventh century mosaics