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A photograph of “photography”

South Elmwood Ave., Oak Park, Illinois, ca. 1904.

Blue Island Modernism

Same vibes as Zouri Drawn Metals Co.'s 1926 banger The Business of Buying a Storefront. archive.org/details/zour...

Happy #TurretTuesday!

Uptown, Chicago from the Wilson Station at way too early in the morning. #chicago #photography #architecture

1/2 Architects Ronneberg & Pierce, I thought I was familiar with your game. I WAS NOT. Meet the Charles Building, built in 1928 & named after its owner, one of the Mickleberry Sausage Kings of Chicago. Each of his brothers also built a huge building on Ashland, but this one was the most exuberant.

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1918 S LAYTON BL, 53215 Year Built: 1927 Zoning: Two-Family Residential 4 [RT4] Assessment: $209,300 Neighborhood: MUSKEGO WAY

The courtyard of 2548-58 W. Fitch (Edward H. Nordlie Co., 1929-30), containing multitudes.

I am not moving hopefully ever again, but I deeply romanticize the idea of spending decades of my life slowly fixing up one of these tired old Victorian houses that overlook the very pretty Auburn Park Lagoon

Super charming storefront featuring a cast of weird terra cotta friends. Architect: Edward Steinberg, 1931

Very good brick as timeline cleanse

cornell square park back of the yards, chicago

Houses in the University District of Detroit, MI

The Bertrand Goldberg-designed Heimbach House tends to get the lion's share of modernism attention in Blue Island, but the town has a ton of good small-scale midcentury architecture. These three are all on the same block of Longwood. The first was town architect William Carlson's personal home.

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Casualties of Evanston's Mt. Trashmore

1920s bricklayer having an exceedingly small bit of fun

I am gonna have to floss more after all this eye candy! 📍: Flossmoor, IL