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a collection of historically important american architectural artifacts.

2015 BLDG. 51 Book

2015 BLDG. 51 Book

180 page collector’s book featuring Chicago’s finest architectural artifacts. 
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Museum Collection

Museum Collection

Eric Nordstrom

Eric Nordstrom

Founder and dedicated collector
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"Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant."

Louis Sullivan, American Architect

"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

"The problem of the tall office building is one of the most stupendous, one of the most magnificent opportunities that the Lord of Nature in His beneficence has ever offered to the proud spirit of man."

Louis Sullivan, American Architect