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the kitten is the most dangerous weapon of all

pulled the production file at the newberry for the fort theater in rock island www.postcard-past.com/fort-armstro...

What y'all doing next Friday? Join @ridgehistorical.bsky.social April 10th at the Beverly Arts Center as @leebey1.bsky.social tells us why the South Side is the Best Side. Oh wait... I'm being told the formal title is "The Architectural Beauty of the Far South & Southwest Side." Link in next post.

Quilting Is An Art is still on the walls for the rest of the month (OMG, have you not seen it? Why not?!), but we're also gearing up for our annual Youth Art Market, when we invite kids into the gallery to show & sell their art. Join us May 2 from 12-3 to support our community's youngest artists.

*taps the sign*

Had to go here today. Though this is my least favorite post office for actually mailing stuff, I gotta admit: you can't beat entering underneath a built-in flagpole that sprouts from the wings of angry AF Art Deco eagles for sheer drama.

Details

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

made a permanent version of an old post about the stone arch at the entrance to the stock yards www.postcard-past.com/entrance-to-...

The obsessive @chgohoods.bsky.social fan has logged on. I do admit to some bias in displaying Steve's South Side designs, but you can rectify this imbalance buying his prints featuring other neighborhoods.

Chicago sights

This is Harold Washington Library State and Van Buren

absolutely an appropriate use of banger 😍

Since it's opening day, why not read my story about how the Cubs were once called the Microbes? medium.com/@robertloerz...

Free and virtual, today at 2:00 PM (CT)! We'll look back on the 1918 flu and COVID-19 pandemics—and how they affected the moviegoing experience. 🎥 Register below for the link.

I rebuke this in the name of I Took Off Work Tomorrow

I would like to thank the Chicago posting community for helping me procrastinate in creating my FY2026-2027 department budget. I truly couldn't not do my work without all of you.

A Tribune article...about my art??? 🤯 www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/25/c...

A watercolor streetscape of Chicago. #chicago #watercolor #architecture #streetscape

Did all you baseball freaks see this? TOMORROW and FREE!

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

Hubba hubba. 2132 and 2126 W. Warren (one on left permitted in 1891).

More from Owatonna at night. This is Louis Sullivan’s bank building.

I’m so completely invested in this little piece of history I didn’t know existed before today

Louisville’s Palace Theatre (1928) by John Eberson

📷 It's Texture Tuesday! 📷 A "destination marker" outside the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, one of the 23 site-specific manhole covers located in downtown Oklahoma City, OK. #OKC #Oklahoma #Architecture #Photography #Detail #Texture #FORAPhotography #TextureTuesday

Lake forever, cold AF for now

1/2 Another Griser banger, this time in Buena Park. The original plan for this site was an apartment hotel, but that got scrapped in favor of a regular apartment complex. The extensive first floor lobby between buildings is a relic of that earlier plan. Architect: Louis Keith Griser, 1926

Lovely Ravenswood mural

This show is incredible! And now that the big opening is over, you can come see these pieces during our quieter hours, when you can really get close & lose yourself in the details. What is amazing from a few feet away becomes more & more mind-blowing the closer you get.

If you are looking to hire someone to model a tiny quilt, this is my husband. He's not on here, but I am prepared to negotiate on his behalf

Details

A little further down the block is that other banger -- the home George Dunne built for himself. The Dunnes are not only listed as living here in a 1901 directory, they somehow managed to stuff 100 guests in here for their 15th wedding anniversary in 1902. Architect: Henry J McMullen, 1900.

Quilting IS an art, an incredible showcase for artistry & expression. It transcends its practical function, serving as a medium to transmit culture, preserve history & tell stories detailed in fabric & thread. Come through tomorrow to meet these phenomenal artists & experience their work yourself!

BREEZE BLOCK BULLSHIT (clap clap clap-clap-clap)

Build a box. Put some ornament on the front of it to create a base with a fancy entry way, a middle part, and a crown. Call it a day.

This building visually dominates the corner of Jackson & Hamlin just from sheer size, but it turns out it was originally designed to do a little more, with flashier details than we see today. Architects: Rissman & Hirschfeld, 1929

Lunch walk critter

subterranean giants only claw their way aboveground when under significant distress

Stumbled over Debbie's friend here last week, and OH, what a delight! It was built in 1897 for a George Dunne, who worked with architect Henry J McMullen several times (including for another banger on this same block), but I can't prove McMullen did this one.

she's still there, up close

Today's tiles.

1/2 I was introduced to this gorgeous girl by @dmercer.bsky.social & had to go see her myself. The AIA Guide calls this "an essay in Gothic," which is cool & all, but doesn't quite explain why nearly every creature on this thing is snacking on some other creature. Architect: Louis Bourgeois, 1887

I just learned (by the tarp on his grave) that composer Bernard Rands passed away two weeks ago. His gravestone was already in place at Graceland with the wonderfully Pythonesque epitaph “Composer now decomposing.”

I have been singing "shitty weather" to the tune of Stormy Weather since I saw this. I am so sorry, Lena Horne.

PSA for the south side do not go between Damen and Western on 63rd unless you have a car with a pretty high clearance because it's flooded under the viaduct

Earlier today I was like, “Self, don’t shove the washing machine back in place by yourself, you’re gonna fuck up your back.” So, of course, I shoved the washing machine back in place by myself & now my back is fucked up. I will learn nothing from this.

Belle Isle Conservatory

It’s @unesco.bsky.social's International Day to Combat Islamophobia. Which seems like ma good moment to ponder some of the transcendently beautiful Islamic architecture I’ve been privileged to see. 👇Great Mosque of Cordoba, The Alhambra, The Blue Mosque, Topkapi Palace.