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11.03.2026 00:45
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It does!
Next-level scrappy!
Snippet from old fire insurance map of big block between Greenview and Noble, North Ave and Le Moyne (Blanche). A thick stream of railway lines cross the right half of the block at a diagonal, peeling off into eleven branches to the left. This area is marked CHICAGO & NORTHWEST RY. NORTH AV. YARD (TEAM TRACKS). A pink box below the branches shows a Blatz Brewing Co. depot.
According to this Sanborn map, it was the C&NW's North Ave. yard.
Illustrations from dictionary of elaborately carved bargeboards on gables, the top with vine-like half-circles, the bottom in foil-like cusps. A caption reads bargeboards, England (14th cent.)
Photo of an illustrated sketch of top a wood building with quatrefoil designs and bargeboard feat. rows of open circles ending in points. Text points to bargeboard and coving.
Seems like either singular or plural works
Yes, and pretty ones too!
Vernacular revival red brown brick with dark brick diamond patterns and super pitched roof and dormers
Huge Tudor revival in classic white stucco and heavy brown beams
The details are great, zoom in on these
I'm back on my 1920s building entrance bullshit, this time with an early contender for Best of 2026
Architect: Roy F France, 1927
Why I now brush up on my enun·ci·a·tion before bumming a ride with you.
An art deco doorway with the word “Kamka” in stylized letters above the entrance
A pair of doors with the Greek letters alpha and omega connected to a stylized dove
Two cool doorways I saw on my ride today. First is the art deco entrance to the former Kamka Funeral Home at 2121 W Webster in Bucktown, across the street from St. Hedwigs. The second is the entrance to Holy Trinity, another Polish Catholic church on Noble just south of Division.
I just saw a (really nice) mural with West Ridge East Neighbors behind the Target! I question that choice when SoArth (south of Arthland) is a wayyyy better fake-sounding micro-neighborhood.
Mosaic entrance floor with cream centre and stylised plant forms surrounding in green and blue
Timber shopfront painted dark grey with decorative entrance floor just visible. The shop is vacant so no displays in the windows.
For #MosaicOnMonday lobby floor for a shop in St Andrews, Fife. 1911 with art nouveau detail and a rather lovely frontage with stained glass but has been vacant for a while.
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
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
cpp of a very sunny beautiful day at Lake michigan: my (white lady) left hand holding a petite handful of clear, green, pale blue and brown weathered glass with crystal clear water at the shallow shoreline deepening into a perfect aquamarine further out. There are gentle cirrus clouds blending into a hazy whitish cloudline at the east-looking horizon.
oh also it was just a perfect sunny lakefront day for a #dailylakeglass
(not all regretting having an excuse to return for weekend 2 of McHenry County Conservation District's based Festival of the MFing Sugar Maples)
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From source: Elevated view of pedestrians walking and automobiles and streetcars driving on Halsted Street at 79th Street in the Auburn Gresham community area of Chicago, Illinois. The sign for the Auburn Park Trust and Savings Bank is visible on left and for a cut-rate drug store on the right in the foreground. Marquees for that read Madrid and Capitol are visible on the left in the background. A water tower is visible in the distance.
Halsted Street at 79th Street, Chicago (1926)
Photo: Chicago Daily News
Back in Woodstock, enjoying the mall and McHenry County cultural heavy hitters @atrociouspoets.bsky.social
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A nearly full moon is seen brightly in late afternoon above Chicago’s loop, with a crane perched atop a more distant building below, and two vertically parallel skyscrapers rising up beside it
daytime #moon in a blue #chicago skyscraper-framed sky. on my #digicam
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Color photo of entrance to large white brick commercial-looking building. Big gray blocks surround the front door and large transom, framed by Sullivanesque edge. Small gold discs on gray around door and transom and gold Deco font above transom reads THE JEWEL LAUNDRY
Happy bday! Surprisingly on-point recent pic.
Color photo of connected buildings on a city street. In back, a large 2.5 story home clad in strips of rough stone, maybe originally a single family home but with separate entrances suggesting conversion. In front of right side of building a one-story midcentury addition, mostly blue trim and big store windows but with sections of rough stone, echoing building behind it.
Good follow-through on the stone (but not the style) on Monroe St. in Madison.
A grid of nine linoleum patterns arranged in a grid of squares. The patterns contain a wide range of alternating shapes and colors, bright or muted, most symmetrical. Most suggest marble or tile.
Selected patterns from “Linoleum & Felt-Base: Spring Season - 1932”
Sloane-Blabon Corp., New York
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Half timber double dormers rough brick and stone base.
Color photo of Tudor home with herring bone brickwork over stone arched garage.
Color photo of half timbered Tudor home with first floor clad in stone and slate roof.
Color photo of garage of Tudor with elaborate herring bone brickwork, stone entry gate, and dovecote (!) waiting for return of doves with equestrian weather vane.
Lagrange 1920s Tudors. #tudoraf.bluesky
These are them!!! Thanks!
That's exactly what I thought too! But no, it was a realtor's office.
It was built for a realtor right around the time this area became billed as Chatham. It's been a church for way longer though, since 1958 according to a writeup I saw.
Color photo of a terra cotta spandrel showing a dude on horseback (gotta be St. George) poking with a lance a dragon that looks annoyed. Adorbs spurs on the dude's shoes.
For sure! Like those houses crazy far back from King, and this rando dragon slayer.
Color photo of a two-story Mediterranean Revival building. Red brick piers at ends, but most of facade is limestone blocks, arranged in irregular courses. Most attention to second floor, an arched full-size window with a substantial Juliette balcony, flanked by two rectangular Friends of Juliette. Cute mini green tile Mansard roof above. Ground floor crazy for arches, with triple window in center, doors within arched recesses on each side. Framing all this stuff? Wreathed columns of course. Above the window a neat sign: First Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
Oh, that's the stuff. 7941 King Drive, finished in 1928.
All caps sans sarif font with weighted line work in black letters on a light yellow background above square casement windows.
Decorative floral plaster work in light yellow below a decorative faux balcony.
Want to see a cool font?