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Color photo of a midcentury single family home in tan brick with a complex roof. Three sections in general L shape: (1) main section on left, 1.5 stories, with the slightest gabled roof, feat. a brown and blue fascia, (2) middle section with recessed entrance, skillion roof starting below eave of left section; (3) garage, coming way up toward the street, roof from center jutting forward and continuing down. Garage door has cute painting of a yellow and black butterfly.

2616 W. Jarvis, ca. 1956, when simple roofs were déclassé

5104 W WISCONSIN AV, 53208

Year Built: 1926
Zoning: Two-Family Residential 2 [RT2]
Assessment: $855,400
Neighborhood: STORY HILL

Color photo of brick in stretcher bond in shades of red, brown, green and gray, pink mortar in between. Texture is rough and irregular.

Happy birthday! Here is some cool brick I saw today!

Adding this achievement to my posting resume!

Color photo of a lagoon in spring, bright green buds on trees on islands, purple redbuds on far shore. Dark clouds above.

Lagoon forever problems for now

A business window with old gold and black lettering partially removed, with the remaining letters spelling out "AW F ICE"

Congratulations to whoever took over the lease on this old law office and had an idea

Snippet from a listing: 3210 General Furniture Co., 1709 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago, Stern

Terra cotta (including that sweet GFCO escutcheon) from the American Terra Cotta & Ceramic Co.
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Isn't it so pretty? There is another only two blocks away!
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1709 w chicago, two story brick and terracotta, now home to brasero restaurant with art galleries above, there's a terracotta shield above the main entrance that has the the letters GF & co.

1922 ad for investments in the "pritzker building"

1922 building permit

brought my dad to the dabin ahn show at document gallery and he was wondering what 1709 w. chicago was originally

so: developed by nicholas pritzker (!), jb's great grandfather, as a general furniture co. store, completed in 1922 and designed by architect isaac s. stern

Color photo of a flowering tree (crabapple I believe) in front of a brick single family home. Sidewalk on verdant city street goes to horizon.

Color photo of a four-story apartment building in the apartment hotel style, shot from close and below. Red brick with extensive white terra cotta trim, including three-story twisty columns separating narrow windows. Central part of parapet is castellated.

Color photo of part of the busy facade (lotsa little sections) of a limestone or concrete building. In center is a sundial with a yellow sun upper right shooting rays. Blue Roman numerals on left, right, and bottom.

Color photo of the entrance to a midcentury apartment building. Canopy reaches from end to end of pic, with triangle shapes on fascia. Three triangles above front door are painted, in shades of green, gray, and blue.

Beautiful walk to the lake (not pictured)

Glad you were able to make a pilgrimage!

I'm there for the angels holding up the St. Peter's sign

Thank you!

Gertrude Abercrombie Paintings postcard 1952

Abercrombie postcard addressed to Hugh Cameron

Postcard for a gallery exhibit of Gertrude Abercrombie's paintings, 1952. She sent this to her friend Hugh Cameron.

Photograph. A six and five-story brick building split by a brick and glass-block central tower. Vertical signage reads "THE SALVATION ARMY". Clouds overhead, along with the corner of a rail trestle. • Mamiya C330f • Ilford XP2 Super 400

509 N. Union Ave., Chicago (2024)

Very nice! I feel like I've seen this one before but can't place it.

I've learned as much from @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social. Also Alexander "Greek" Thomson!

Color photo of a flooded field in a city park. In the puddle are two trees blossoming with smallish dark pink blossoms, possibly prairie crabapple trees.

Color photo of the trunk and bottom part of a tree with low hanging branches of blossoming white flowers, possibly a Siberian crabapple tree. Past the tree trunk, a flooded field.

Good morning from postdiluvian Indian Boundary Park

No, never been to the UK! (But visiting Scotland in June.)

You put it in the ALT text; it's all good!

And our beloved bargeboards!

The ALT text indicates the half-timbering (or at least plaster infill) and the gables!

Love all the layers, including many from the 1910s-1920s!

Looking out toward a foggy Lake Michigan from the back side of Madonna Della Strada Chapel on the campus of Loyola University in Chicago.

Foggy lake forever.

large vertical marquee that says alcala’s free parking across the street with a large horse on its hind legs and a small neon Scorpion sign on top

never noticed that the neon on top of the alcala’s sign is a scorpion

Large mature trees rising out of a grassy field flooded with water

Dark clouds above sunlit trees on a lagoon shore

A blooming redbud tree aside a lagoon with swan-shaped boats moored in a group

A zoomed in view of the Chicago skyline from a park. The sky looks stormy.

Spring showers in Humboldt Park.

A huge, kaiju-sized green and orange carp is looming over the Watertower and nearly as tall as the Hancock Tower in Chicago, which it is leaning against, and the building is bowing with the weight. Two people are in the foreground running from the massive fish as giant waves lash upward in th background. Even closer in the foreground is a newspaper box with a paper in the front window with the headline INVASIVE CARP CHAOS and a photo of said carp. Everything is done in a stylized manner vaguely reminiscent of a Japanese woodcut print.

This is something I put quite a bit of work into that got canned the day it was supposed to come out for reasons I'm not getting into here. But I'm allowed to show you the image with identifying branding elements removed, which is what I am doing.

Now more than ever

And I stand by that endorsement. In any event, it's nice to see my enthusiasm acknowledged.