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📍Chicago Preservationist and architectural historian 🏳️‍🌈
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These three engraved “trunks” at St. Boniface Cemetery are some of the strangest and most unique grave markers I think I’ve ever seen.

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Last year, I had a summer of Sazeracs and this year is not looking any different

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

(Paper) Bag secured

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The Tylenol murders doc on Netflix was pretty good, but they didn’t even mention Stanley Tigerman!

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Got the opportunity to spend the weekend at the Monteagle Sunday School Assembly in Monteagle, Tennessee. This Chautauqua community was established in 1882 and features a wide, really fun variety of cottage types built over a number of decades.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Got the opportunity to spend the weekend at the Monteagle Sunday School Assembly in Monteagle, Tennessee. This Chautauqua community was established in 1882 and features a wide, really fun variety of cottage types built over a number of decades.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Still dreaming about this meat and three lunch yesterday at Kleer-Vu in Murfreesboro

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Perfect selfie setting too

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

The famous 1930s Art Deco men’s room, with original Vitrolite walls, at the Hermitage Hotel in Nashville.

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

Nashville’s Parthenon (1897), designed by William Crawford Smith, which I assume was the inspiration for the one in Athens

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

In Nashville for the next 24 hours and obsessed with this East Nashville building I stumbled on: Engine Company No. 18 Fire Hall (1930) by C.K. Kolley & Sons.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

A friend who used to be part of Chicago Twitter (but has since burnt out on social media) just sent me these photos of a real estate office he found in Pawnee, IL featuring a house-shaped entryway with a detailed stone carving of a midcentury ranch house above it:

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Hi from my hew bathroom ✌🏽

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

I cannot recommend an album more for unwinding at the end of the longest weekend ever

submitted 17 days ago • 5 comments

1236 N. Hoyne, built in 1886

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Tfw there’s a sale at the keystone store

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Commemorating the end of moving (I’m ignoring unpacking) the only way I know how

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

All packed, moving tomorrow, one last selfie in this mirror

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Mmm tornado watch sundae

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Now hold on–

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

We’ve entered the “throwing shit in bags and then shoving those bags into boxes” part of packing

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🥸

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