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6 months

Northwestern National Life Insurance Building (1965) by Minoru Yamasaki

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wingspread (1939) in Wind Point, WI

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National Farmers’ Bank (1908) in Owatonna, MN. Designed by Louis Sullivan, the first of his “jewel box” banks.

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I bet this feels so good for the door

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Getting my doors professionally refinished was the right choice

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939 W. Armitage (1892), architect unknown

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Bloom High School (1931) in Chicago Heights. Designed by Royer, Danely & Smith.

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Downtown Detroit has one of the best examples I’ve ever seen of how mismatched building sizes tend to make for much more interesting streetscapes

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2 years

Frank Lloyd Wrong

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It’s eco-Brutalism. Brutalism with planters.

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1 year

Chicago courtyard apartment appreciation post

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11 months

Harry Weese’s subterranean masterpiece: the DC Metro.

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11 months

Just checking in on our big postmodern masterpiece

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The Stickney House (1865) Bull Valley, IL Built by George and Sylvia Stickney, two Spiritualists who believed that right angles trapped ghosts. The Stickneys often held seances in the second-floor ballroom.

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9 months

Now with more snow and warm lighting

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9 months

Now that’s more like it

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11 months

I heard you all like Art Deco, so here’s Suburban Station (1930) by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White

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8 months

Fascinated by this eerie, undated shot of an unidentified Chicago neighborhood. Source: Metropolitan Planning Council Collection, UIC

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I.W. Colburn’s St. Anastasia Church (1964) in Waukegan

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1 year

Chicago looking a little too perfect today

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Johnson Wax Headquarters (1939-1950) by Frank Lloyd Wright

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The unbelievable houses of Detroit’s Woodward East Historic District, probably one of the stateliest collections of homes I’ve ever seen.

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Coleman House (1906, 1993), originally built as a Craftsman bungalow and reimagined as a Queen Anne residence in the 90s by its owner.

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7 months

More gratuitous Guardian Building ceiling content

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My first time seeing the Guardian Building (1929) by Wirt C. Rowland of Smith, Hinchman & Grylls. It did not disappoint.

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The Kirsch Home (1982) by Errol Kirsch is an intergalactic-sculpture-turned-residence, a jarring outlier amidst Oak Park’s array of revivalist houses.

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5 months

McFormalist

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11 months

I’d seen photos of it and still nothing could prepare me for the sheer craziness of the scale of this thing: Philadelphia City Hall (1871-1901) by John McArthur Jr. and Thomas Ustick Walter.

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1 year

Kyoto is a treasure trove of little weird guys making the most of their lot sizes

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9 months

Just a reminder that La Bamba Jalisco in the basement of 105 W. Madison churns out perfect tacos with melted cheese tucked in between the tortillas

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11 months

Happened upon this lovely entryway in Dupont Circle last night

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11 months

Living room is getting close to reaching peak levels of coziness

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1 year

Fire Station No. 3 (1983) by William Burd

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7 months

Little Caesars World Headquarters (2019) by SmithGroup, with a facade of curved triangular glass panes that look not unlike hot-n-ready pizza slices

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Now that’s more like it

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2 years

@Eric_Erins I did not anticipate the floor tile being the part that remained

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2 years

Chicago’s really showing off tonight

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic Robie House (1910). Considered maybe the finest expression of Wright’s Prairie design, the house is one of 8 Wright buildings designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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11 months

The over the top, Metropolis-esque Art Deco glory of Philly’s WCAU Building (1928) by Gabriel Roth and Harry Sternfeld.

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2 years

Not sure how to say this but: Today, I was standing at an 84 bus stop. A car jumped the curb, colliding with the bus shelter. I saw it coming and ran. It missed me by a foot. Somehow, my only injury is a nasty puncture wound to the leg from flying debris.

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My first time seeing the Guardian Building (1929) by Wirt C. Rowland of Smith, Hinchman & Grylls. It did not disappoint.

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9 months

1800 block of W. Morse in the snow 🥹

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Minoru Yamasaki’s College of Education Building (1961) at Wayne State. Sublime.

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Riverside Plaza (1973) by Ralph Rapson

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1 year

Little known Chicago secret: this is the inside of the Bean

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One of my favorite spaces in Chicago is behind the curtain.

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Merchants National Bank (1912) in Winona, MN. Designed by Purcell, Feick and Elmslie. If it reminds you of the Sullivan bank I posted yesterday, that’s not terribly surprising given that Elmslie had worked on that bank only a few years prior.

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1 year

Today is my birthday, so here are some Chicago skyscrapers that also turned 33 this year

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Absolute unit of a bungalow (originally built as a set of flats). Designed by Benedict J. Bruns in 1923.

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More of the wonderful buildings of Winona, MN.

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Marina City by Bourbontrand Goldberg

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2 years

Taking a break from L.A. content to post Chicago content: 5941 N. Central Park Ave.

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2 years

The houses of South Pasadena

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2 years

The li’l guys of Pilsen

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9 months

Finally, no cars in front of this one! 6121 N. Hamilton (1929) by N.W. Cook.

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8 months

As someone who likes to take pictures of buildings, I always find the Upper East Side so overwhelming. Not enough time in the world to look at all of it.

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A sweet li’l guy at 52 Greenwich Ave.

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11 months

Perfect lighting yesterday for taking a million photos of I.M. Pei’s Society Hill Towers (1964).

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8 months

Flatter than the Flatiron? 10 Sullivan (2015) by Cary Tamarkin

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Surreal to finally see this in person, grateful it was saved from the brink of permanent loss: Michigan Central Station (1913) by Reed & Stem and Warren & Wetmore.

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2 years

And just like that, it’s been exactly 2 years since I moved to Chicago. My review: terrific city, 10/10.

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1 year

The incredible jagged Deco entrance to St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic School (1929) by Shattuck & Layer

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It also wouldn’t have been a visit to southwestern Wisconsin without a stop at the House on the Rock. A true phantasmagoria, one I still haven’t really processed.

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200 Dempster Street (1941) by William Deknatel

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First time at the Civic Opera (1929) by Graham, Anderson, Probst and White and I got the privilege of enjoying the show from the box seats. One of the most spectacular venues I’ve ever seen.

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Finally got to see the inside of North Shore Congregation Israel (1964) by Minoru Yamasaki with @docomomoChicago today

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A.D. German Warehouse (1917-1921) in Richland Center, WI. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright who did so as compensation for unpaid bills at German’s store. It was never officially completed.

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Belle Shore Apartments (1929) by Koenigsberg & Weisfeld

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1 year

When will this nightmare be over

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While I was in Hudson, my friend gave me a tour of the glorious Olana, an estate designed and owned by Hudson River School painter Frederic Edwin Church. Calvert Vaux assisted in the design.

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2 years

I’ll never not stop in to St. Clement, easily one of Chicago’s best church interiors

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351 Canal Street (1872) designed by W.H. Gaylor

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The hypnotic General Motors Research Laboratory (1928-1936) by Albert Kahn Associates

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Cicero Hine’s Berkeley Cottages (1886-1887) on the 4100 block of S. Berkeley Ave

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Detroit’s glorious Book Tower (1926) by Louis Kamper which was recently fully restored and turned into a hotel/residential/office/retail mixed use giant.

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Beautiful terra cotta at 137 Varick for new Disney headquarters. Designed by SOM.

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2 years

Pfanner House (2002) by Zoka Zola, named Home of the Year in 2003 by Architecture Magazine.

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9 months

I bet the TSA lines are much shorter at this one

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The former Telenews Theater (1942) by architect Cyril E. Schley—Detroit’s first full-time newsreel theater!

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10 months

Spotted this on my Christmas Day post-tamales walk: 4500 N. Mozart (1928) by Teich & Sullivan

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The perfect building: The Cavalier in La Crosse, WI, “where particular people congregate.”

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My hotel bar sits gloriously inside a space that used to be a spiral ramp for a parking garage.

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2 years

6417 N. Ravenswood

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7 months

An incredible building outdone by its own interiors. The gorgeous ceilings done by artist Géza Maróti.

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Detroit’s Fisher Building (1928) by Albert Kahn Associates

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1 year

A year ago today, a driver killed Concepcion Lopez at this bus stop and left me with permanent injury to my leg. In the absence of any justice for her family, flowers felt like a small way to remember her today.

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Went on the delightful Logs to Lustrons tour this weekend in Indiana Dunes National Park. One of the best stops was the Meyer House (1961-1965) by Harold Olin.

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2 years

The woman sitting at the bus shelter five feet from me did not survive—I’m heartbroken and unspeakably mad. I’ll probably have more to say later, but for now…I’m just in shock that I’m still here.

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Gorgeous brick and terra cotta at 224 17th Street (1884) in South Slope. That woven cornice is unbelievable.

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1 year

A beautiful night to be walking around Chicago

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Roloson Houses (1894)

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11 months

Well, I got inside. What an unbelievably gorgeous space (and what a great venue for a night of eerie music performed by the newly formed Varo String Quartet!).

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Rosehill Cemetery’s Horatio N. May Chapel (1899) by Joseph Lyman Silsbee. Absolutely dying to see the interiors in person.

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Elfreth’s Alley, which was originally created in 1706 as a cart path to the Delaware River, is thought to be the oldest continuously-inhabited residential street in the United States.

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Heard you guys like pictures of Chicago

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11 months

Didn’t have time to go inside 😩 but the tremendous exterior of Frank Furness and George Hewitt’s Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1876) is its own work of art.

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Despite its wild flamboyance, I feel like this incredible storefront is consistently overlooked: 5519-5525 N. Clark (1923) by Ronneberg, Pierce & Hauber

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10 months

Nighttime Thompson Center with the Sbarro Urbanists™️

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Just checking in on our big postmodern masterpiece

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The recently landmarked Clark-Netsch House (1974) by Walter Netsch

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5 months

Two years. The driver is finally going to trial this summer. For a ticket. For improper lane usage. Traffic violence remains an epidemic and there is so often little to no justice for its victims.

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A year ago today, a driver killed Concepcion Lopez at this bus stop and left me with permanent injury to my leg. In the absence of any justice for her family, flowers felt like a small way to remember her today.

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10 months

Finally what everyone’s been waiting for: the spider eye pop top.

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More Art Deco! The grand and monumental Perelman Building (1926) at sunset, designed by Zantzinger, Borie & Medary. Sculptures and other decorative elements by Lee Lawrie.

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