Lady Topham Catt

You're really doing your best to bully me into making one of these, aren't you? 😂

Screenshot from article linked in OP reads: “According to building inspection records obtained by the Review through the Freedom of Information Act, an inspection this January revealed that the building's fire alarm system and many smoke detectors are disabled because of water damage, that exterior exits are blocked with materials, there's defective or exposed electrical wiring, plus holes in ceilings, floors and walls. According to the inspector, the building is not approved for occupancy and ‘has many violations that have not been corrected in years. Structural engineers are required to evaluate structure for safety.’"

Yikes on trikes!

I am SO SORRY for all that, but Pinky McTongue-Horne has me wheezing

Thanks! He is now even scarier!

Colfax!

I'm back on my 1920s building entrance bullshit, this time with an early contender for Best of 2026

Architect: Roy F France, 1927

West Lafayette is the only one I've been to, but no one will lend me a helicopter to see the rest. Would also accept the offer of a small plane.

Screenshot of 2 Bluesky posts. @TudorAF: "The look @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social gave when I talked about liking Insull revival buildings and she thought I said something else revival" @ladytophamcatt: Y'all gotta understand... We're in a car on some godforsaken road in Indiana when he starts rhapsodizing with more enthusiasm than enunciation about his deep & abiding love of In*cough&, & yeaaah... glad we got that whole -sull/-cel thing cleared up before I hit the eject passenger button"

Days? @tudoraf.bsky.social & I barely made it an hour outside of Chicago before things started to deteriorate

i want to visit the jewel boxes, but I don't want to drive & none of my mutuals seem to have a helicopter I can borrow

Hey, sometimes ya just gotta scream into the void & scratch

But I mean... LOOK AT THAT FONT!!! Seriously, look at it! 😍

That's one of my faves! The building itself is exquisite, but that entrance is almost beyond belief.

lol, Soren scheduled one, but we all agreed to it weeks ago, so I’m just being an ass

In any case, very happy you have released your pod on the gentlemen. I will now go walk into the sea while carefully saying f-u-j-i-t-a out loud.

It autocorrected me. I will be deleting, lol!

Once you see the Hotel Guyon in person, there's just something about it that will not let you go. It is hauntingly beautiful, even in its current state.

These pics are from 2023, before they put up the scaffolding.

Architect: Jens J Jensen, 1927

One of the most heartbreaking photos from the Eastland Disaster in Chicago - that of a fireman holding the lifeless body of a child - was captured by Jun Fujita.

Learn more about Fujita's life and work in the latest episode of the podcast.

thinking about skipping out on a board meeting i have later

"People lie, but moss does not." King shit!

I have a grandmother buried at Burr Oak & cannot describe to you how we felt when this story first broke & no one really knew who was impacted. I love a righteous nerd saving the day.

two people are dancing in a crowd and one of them is saying we 're not worthy ! we 're not worthy ! ALT: two people are dancing in a crowd and one of them is saying we 're not worthy ! we 're not worthy !

The rarely seen Double Y!

Color photo of a two-story apartment building in variegated tan brick. Entrances to units are motel-style, from open hallways. In front of hallways, at each end (covering staircase on left) are large sections of breeze block.

Close-up of gray breeze block on building in first pic. Alternating pattern of (1) open rounded rectangles and (2) reflected Ys making triangles at top and bottom and trapezoids at side, all installed vertically.

Ignored the Queen Annes and Italianates of Woodstock, IL, for this breeze block on Jackson St., ca. 1964

I hope you grabbed one of each pamphlet for me

ain’t no rule says a dog can’t have a boat

Color photo of Lake Michigan, stretching on forever until it meets the sky.

Lake forever, problems for now

ME NEITHER! I have no idea why I chose the morning slots this year, but won’t make that mistake again! 😩 Hope to see y’all next year… in the afternoon!

Isn't it an amazing experience? Easily one of the coolest, most fulfilling things I do every year.

Color photo of the MFn SEARS TOWER on an overcast day, clouds partially obscuring its top floors.

still there

She does look formidable!

😭

I am done. If you see me on here, please don’t yell at me.