2018 Year in Review
This entry was posted on January 2 2019 by Eric
as 2018 draws to a close, i culled the urban remains/bldg. 51 blog post archive to create a carefully curated collection of information, images, and acquisitions capping a year of relentless, unforgiving, and exhaustive work. the creation of this ever-expanding american architectural history database - revolving around 19th and early 20th century chicago construction materials and methods - has slowly morphed into my life's work - for now. the links are listed below in chronological order. work from previous years - offered in similar fashion is included.
LIMITED-EDITION SOFTBOUND "LOST AND FOUND" BOOK CHRONICLING DISCOVERY OF CONGRESS THEATER'S HIDDEN OBJECTS IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE
FORGOTTEN COLLECTION OF HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT 1871 CHICAGO FIRE DOCUMENTS ADDED TO BLDG. 51 MUSEUM ARCHIVE
DOCUMENTING CHICAGO'S ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENT IN 2017
DIGITIZATION OF THE BLDG. 51 MUSEUM REFERENCE LIBRARY TOP PRIORITY IN 2018
BLDG. 51 MUSEUM 2017 ACQUISITION HIGHLIGHTS
DEMOLITION OF SOUTH SIDE CHICAGO CHURCH RINGS IN THE NEW YEAR
SHEDDING LIGHT ON LONG LOST ARTIFACTS RESCUED FROM COLUMBUS MEMORIAL AND ITS NEIGHBOR, THE VENETIAN BUILDING
FORMER HUMBOLDT GARAGE & AUTO SERVICE COMPANY BUILDING (1911) UNDERGOING DEMOLITION
CLARENCE HATZFELD'S SOUTH SIDE MASONIC TEMPLE (1921) UNDERGOING DEMOLITION, PART 1
CAST PLASTER COVE MOLDING FROM LOUIS SULLIVAN-DESIGNED ALBERT SULLIVAN RESIDENCE JOINS BLDG. 51 MUSEUM COLLECTION
D.H. BURNHAM'S CHICAGO MACHINERY EXCHANGE WAREHOUSE HANDED DEATH SENTENCE
CONTENTS FROM HUMBOLDT GARAGE & AUTO SERVICE BUILDING WALK-IN VAULT SAVED SHORTLY BEFORE ITS DEMOLITION
NEWLY DISCOVERED IMAGES OFFER A CLOSER LOOK AT RICHARD NICKEL SALVAGING GARRICK THEATER
UNUSUAL TIME CAPSULE EXTRACTED FROM BETHEL CHURCH (1905) DURING BUILDING'S DEMOLITION
A RELENTLESS FOCUS ON DIGITIZING IMAGES OF CHICAGO'S PAST A WELCOME CHANGE FROM DOCUMENTING BUILDING ORNAMENT
NEWLY DISCOVERED LOUIS H. SULLIVAN POLYCHROMED LIGHTOGRAPHED TIN STOVEBOARD JOINS BLDG. 51 MUSEUM COLLECTION
DEMOLITION NEARING ITS END ON CLARENCE HATZFELD'S SOUTH MASONIC TEMPLE BUILDING
CITY OF CHICAGO BUILDING TERRA COTTA: A VISUAL STUDY OF ORNAMENT FROM THE GREAT CHICAGO FIRE TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION
REVISITING "UNEARTHING CHICAGO" IN 2018
NEWLY DISCOVERED PHOTOGRAPHS CAPTURE THE TRAGIC LOSS OF ADLER & SULLIVAN'S PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH
BLDG. 51 MUSEUM HOSTS IIT'S COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE PHD PROGRAM STUDENT FIELD TRIP
A PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF LOUIS H. SULLIVAN-DESIGNED BUILDING HARDWARE
BURNHAM'S LAST ARCHITECTURAL COMMISSION - THE CONTINENTAL BANK BUILDING - IS JUST A STANDING SHELL OF ITS FORMER SELF
DEVOTING TIME TO DOCUMENT CHICAGO'S ARCHITECTURE HAS PROVED CHALLENGING IN 2018
WITH DEMOLITION COMPLETE, DOCUMENTATION OF SOUTH SIDE MASONIC TEMPLE DRAWS TO A CLOSE
JOHN VINCI SLIDES OF CHICAGO'S PAST: THE FIRST OF SEVERAL POSTS COVERING THE DIGITIZING OF HIS EXTENSIVE ARCHIVE
HERMAN V. VON HOLST'S SOUTHSIDE CHICAGO PRAIRIE STYLE GAITAN BUILDING (1924) THREATENED WITH DEMOLITION
DEMYSTIFYING THE BOWER-BARFF PROCESS: AN ANALYSIS OF "RUST-PROOF" ORNAMENTAL IRON AND BUILDERS' HARDWARE
ANOTHER POST-FIRE CHICAGO RESIDENCE ON ORCHARD FACES WRECKING MACHINE
ORIGINAL 19TH CENTURY EDISON "HAIRPIN" FILAMENT MOLD BLOWN LAMPS FROM CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE TRADING ROOM
THE "WHITE CITY" LIVES ON THROUGH COMPANY THAT CONTRIBUTED TO ITS CONSTRUCTION
SEVERAL HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT ARTIFACTS, BOOKS AND EPHEMERA JOIN BLDG. 51 MUSEUM AND ARCHIVE IN 2018
VILLAGE THEATER'S POLYCHROME TERRA COTTA FACADE STAYS, BUT THE BUILDING'S AUDITORIUM GOES
DECONSTRUCTION OF 19TH CENTURY TWO-STORY FRAME STRUCTURE OFFERS RARE GLIMPSE AT ITS BUILDING METHODS AND MATERIALS
A SELECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS FROM RICHARD NICKEL AND JOHN VINCI 1960'S CONTACT PRINTS
HISTORIALLY IMPORTANT WINDOWS FROM BURNHAM & ROOT'S PALMER V. KELLOGG MANSION (1883) JOIN BLDG. 51 MUSEUM COLLECTION
A COMPREHENSIVE LOOK AT THE CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING ENTRANCE ARCH
KODACHROMATIC JOUNERY CHRONICLING THE DEATH OF ADLER & SULLIVAN'S CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING IN 1972
LATEST INSTALLMENT OF DIGITIZED IMAGES FROM THE BLDG. 51 MUSEUM ARCHIVE
POST-FIRE ITALIANATE ROWHOUSE ON ORCHARD ON ITS WAY OUT
BLDG. 51 MUSUEM ACQUIRES HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT TERRA COTTA FROM THREE ADLER & SULLIVAN BUILDINGS
LATEST DIGITIZED KODACHROME SLIDES FROM THE JOHN VINCI ARCHIVE
AN UNEXPECTED TOUR OF SOUTH SIDE CHICAGO WITH TIM SAMUELSON AND JOHN VINCI
ADLER & SULLIVAN'S CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE FEATURED IN JULY 1894 ISSUE OF WINSLOW BROTHERS'S "ORNAMENTAL IRON"
A COLLABORATION BETWEEN THE BLDG. 51 ARCHIVE AND CHICAGO ART INSTITUTE'S RYERSON & BURNHAM ARCHIVE
RARE PACIFIC GARDEN MISSION AUTOCHROME GLASS SLIDES HIDDEN AWAY FOR OVER 60 YEARS IN SAFE FOUND DURING DEMOLITION
RESTORATION WORK ON 1927 JEWELERS BUILDING EXTERIOR TERRA COTTA WORK RESUMES AS SPRING ARRIVES
BLDG. 51 MUSEUM ACQUIRES DRUMMOND-DESIGNED AVERY COONLEY REMODEL PLAYHOUSE LEADED GLASS WINDOWS
RICHARD NICKEL'S INSTITUTE OF DESIGN SCRAPBOOK NOW DIGITIZED
RECONSTRUCTION OF ADLER AND SULLIVAN'S TRADING ROOM THROUGH JOHN VINCI'S KODACHROME SLIDES
PUBLICATION OF GARRICK THEATER SALVAGE BOOK TOP PRIORITY FOR 2018
PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE CARRIE ELIZA GETTY TOMB'S EXTERIOR ORNAMENT
LOUIS SULLIVAN'S 1896 GUARANTY BUILDING: A PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF ITS TERRA COTTA ORNAMENT
LONG-FORGOTTEN 1915 WOMAN'S CHANGE PURSE REDISCOVERED LONG AFTER GARRICK THEATER'S DEMOLITION IN 1960
REVISITING LONG-FORGOTTEN IMAGES DOCUMENTING EXTRACTION OF GARRICK THEATER'S BRILLIANTLY COLORED MOSAIC FLOOR LUNETTES
THREE 19TH CENTURY CHICAGO MASONRY WORKER COTTAGES FACED WITH DEMOLITION
A SELECTION OF FIVE UNEARTHED CHICAGO BOTTLES WITH COMPELLING NARRATIVES
LATEST BLDG. 51 MUSEUM AND CHICAGO ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENT ARCHIVE ACQUISITIONS
"CONSTELLATION STARS" AND MULTI-COLORED COVE LIGHTS SALVAGED FROM CHICAGO'S ATMOSPHERIC THEATERS
RICHARD NICKEL IMAGES DOCUMENTING THE DEATH OF HOLABIRD AND ROCHE'S 1899 CABLE BUILDING NOW DIGITIZED
THREE-STORY BRICK COMMERCIAL BUILDING AT 170-172 . HALSTED LATEST BUILDING TO FALL IN FULTON MARKET DISTRICT
A RARE GLIMPSE AT THE DEMOLITION OF ADLER & SULLIVAN'S GARRICK THEATER THROUGH KODACHROME SLIDES
EIGHT BUILDING BRICKS SHED LIGHT ON THE DISAPPEARANCE OF CHICAGO'S ARCHITECTURAL PAST
DOCUMENTING THE DISMANTLEMENT OF ADLER & SULLIVAN'S CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING ORNAMENT IRON STAIRCASE
LATEST INSTALLMENT OF JOHN VINCI KODACHROME SLIDES OF 1960'S CHICAGO
RICHARD NICKEL'S GARRICK THEATER "ORNAMENT SCRAPBOOK" NOW DIGITIZED
IMPENDING DEMOLITION OF 1914 CHICAGO AVENUE BASCULE BRIDGE ON THE HORIZON
LOOKING BACK AT THE DOCUMENTATION AND DECONSTRUCTION OF THE NORTOWN THEATER OVER A DECADE SINCE ITS DEMOLITION
PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF UPTOWN THEATER'S ORNAMENTAL TERRA COTTA FACADE
BLDG. 51 MUSEUM SECURES LARGE COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL INSTITUTE OF DESIGN "SULLIVAN PROJECT" PHOTOGRAPHS FROM 1956 EXHIBIT
A PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF LIMESTONE ORNAMENT SALVAGED IN 1953 FROM ADLER & SULLIVAN'S WALKER WAREHOUSE
A PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF ADLER AND SULLIVAN'S WAINWRIGHT BUILDING ORNAMENT
EXTENSIVE REPOSITORY OF 19TH CENTURY CHICAGO WORKERS COTTAGE BUILDING MATERIALS HOUSED IN BLDG. 51 MUSEUM ARCHIVE
BLDG. 51 MUSEUM'S CHICAGO "MOVIE PALACE" ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENT AND ARCHIVE COLLECTION
BLDG. 51 MUSEUM ACQUIRES WINSLOW BROTHERS ELEVATOR AND STAIRCASE ORNAMENT FROM HOLABIRD & ROCHE'S OLD COLONY BUILDING
REORGANIZING THE BLDG. 51 CHICAGO ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENT ARCHIVE IN PROGRESS
VISITING RICHARD NICKEL'S ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENT COLLECTION AT LOVEJOY LIBRARY WITH JOHN VINCI
A PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF LATE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY ST. LOUIS COMMERCIAL BUILDING ORNAMENT
SCHMIDT AND GARDEN'S 1907 MONTGOMERY WARD'S MAIL COMPLEX UNDERGOING FACADE RESTORATION
DESIGN ELEMENTS FROM ADLER & SULLIVAN'S TRANSPORTATION BUILDING PRESERVED THROUGH ALBERT SULLIVAN HOUSE DEMOLITION
HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT JOHN BURNHAM ROOT-DESIGNED ORNAMENTAL IRON HEADER PANEL LATEST ADDITION TO BLDG. 51 MUSEUM ARCHITECTURAL ARTIFACT COLLECTION
IMAGES OF ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENT ON PERMANENT DISPLAY AT CITY MUSUEM IN ST. LOUIS
A LOOK BACK AT PREVIOUS POSTS CHRONICLING RICHARD NICKEL'S DOCUMENTATION OF BUILDING DEMOLITION
A COLLECTION OF EPHEMERA AND IMAGES FROM THE 1956 LOUIS SULLIVAN ARCHITECTURE OF FREE ENTERPRISE EXHIBIT
CHICAGO'S 19TH CENTURY HOUSING STOCK CONTINUES TO DIMINISH YEAR AFTER YEAR
RESTORATION WORK ON HOWELLS AND HOOD'S NEOGOTHIC LIMESTONE TRIBUNE TOWER GETS UNDERWAY
RECOLLECTIONS "SALVAGING" THE COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL'S POWER HOUSE TEN YEARS AGO
RESTORATION WORK ON COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL'S FACADE FINALLY UNDERWAY
A RARE GLIMPSE AT THE UPPER FLOORS OF ADLER & SULLIVAN'S JEWELERS BUILDING AS PHOTOGRAPHED BY RICHARD NICKEL
LATEST IMAGES OF CHICAGO'S HISTORIC COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL FACADE RESTORATION
FROM ORNAMENT TO ORDINANCE: WINSLOW BROTHERS FOUNDRY AND WORLD WAR ONE
MID-19TH CENTURY MINERAL WATER BOTTLES UNEARTHED FROM SITE WHERE GRAND CENTRAL STATION ONCE STOOD
LOST AND FOUND: ADLER & SULLIVAN'S KNISELY FLATS AND STORE
ANOTHER LATE 19TH CENTURY CHICAGO TWO-FLAT AND 1902 CHURCH BUILDING HEADING TOWARDS OBLIVION
LATEST IMAGES FROM THE 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CHICAGO ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENT PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY
DOCUMENTING CASS GILBERT'S WOOLWORTH BUILDING REVISITED
THE USE OF ORNAMENTAL TERRA COTTA IN CHICAGO BEFORE AND AFTER THE GREAT FIRE OF 1871
CHICAGO'S POST-FIRE RESILIENCE AS SEEN THROUGH REMAINING 19TH CENTURY ARTIFACTS AND BUILDINGS
JENNEY'S ISABELLA BUILDING ELEVATOR FRAGMENT AND DOORKNOB SHED LIGHT ON EARLY USE OF CAST ALUMINUM AS ORNAMENT
COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL'S FACADE CLEANED, REPAIR OF ITS TERRA COTTA ORNAMENT TO FOLLOW
A PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF LOUIS SULLIVAN'S LAST COMMISSION: KRAUSE MUSIC STORE FACADE
FIVE DAYS SALVAGING THE GARRICK THEATER AS RECORDED IN RICHARD NICKEL NOTES AND PHOTOGRAPHS
SUBURBAN LAWN ONCE SERVED AS AN ARCHITECTURE GRAVEYARD FOR ADLER AND SULLIVAN'S DEMOLISHED BUILDINGS
SIZABLE COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS DOCUMENTING CONSTRUCTION OF COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL RECENTLY UNEARTHED
STENCIL RECOVERY FROM ADLER & SULLIVAN'S GARRICK THEATER THROUGH IMAGES AND FAITHFULLY RECREATED CANVAS FRAGMENT
SALVAGING 19TH CENTURY CHICAGO COTTAGES AND THE WORK OF GORDON MATTA-CLARK
MUCH OF SCHLESINGER & MAYER BUILDING'S INTERIOR ORNAMENTAL IRON SCRAPPED DURING THE DEPRESSION AND AGAIN DURING "GREAT FLOOD"
ORNAMENTAL CAST IRON ROOKERY BUILDING PILASTER PANEL JOINS BLD. 51 MUSUEM COLLECTION
LOUIS H. SULLIVAN'S OWATONNA BANK: A BUILDING BURSTING WITH ORNAMENT
CHICAGO'S STEVENS-DAVIS ADVERTISING COMPANY BUILDING FACES WRECKING BALL
A PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY OF THE CHICAGO STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING TRADING ROOM FROM BEGINNING, END, AND REBIRTH
THREE HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT CHICAGO BUILDING ARTIFACTS JOIN BLDG. 51 MUSEUM COLLECTION
EARLIEST KNOWN ADLER & SULLIVAN LIGHT FIXTURE RESCUED FROM MORRIS SELZ RESIDENCE BEFORE ITS DEMOLITION
CONTINUED DOCUMENTATION OF HOWELLS AND HOOD'S CHICAGO TRIBUNE TOWER EXTERIOR RESTORATION
DOCUMENTING SELDOM SEEN UPPER FLOORS OF ADLER AND SULLIVAN'S 1881 JEWELERS' BUILDING
STEVENS-DAVIS BUILDING'S GLAZED TERRA COTTA ORNAMENT DESTROYED DURING ITS DEMOLITION
OVERSIZED J.W. TAYLOR ALBUMEN PRINTS OF WILLIAM LE BARON JENNEY'S LEITER II BUILDING UNDER CONSTRUCTION JOINS BLDG. 51 MUSEUM ARCHIVE
OVER A DECADE DEVOTED TO DOCUMENTING AND SALVAGING CHICAGO'S ARCHITECTURAL PAST
SALVAGING ADLER AND SULLIVAN'S GARRICK THEATER BOOK ON HORIZON
LATEST IMAGES DOCUMENTING RESTORATION OF HOWELLS AND HOOD'S 1925 TRIBUNE TOWER
AN INTENSIVE STUDY ON MATERIALS AND METHODS USED IN BUILDING THE CHICAGO WORKERS COTTAGE
PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF 19TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENT IN BOSTON'S BACK BAY
A 19TH CENTURY COTTAGE AND 1914 BASCULE BRIDGE WIPED AWAY FROM CHICAGO'S CITYSCAPE
EXAMPLES OF CARVED BRICK AS ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENT IN BOSTON
19TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS OF BURNHAM AND ROOT'S ROOKERY'S SKYLIGHT ACQUIRED BY BLD. 51 MUSEUM ARCHIVE
PHOTODOCUMENTING ARCHITECTURAL BUILDING ORNAMENT IN WISCONSIN REVISITED
PHOTOGRAPHIC SURVEY OF ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENT TAKEN DURING WEEKEND TRIP TO BOSTON
LATEST JOHN VINCI'S KODACHROME SLIDES DOCUMENTING CHICAGO'S PAST
DOCUMENTING JEWELERS' BUILDING TERRA COTTA EXTERIOR AND TOWER RESTORATION WORK OVER THE WEEKEND
REPEATEDLY DOCUMENTING BURNHAM AND ROOT'S ROOKERY BUILDING YIELDS NEW DISCOVERIES
SELDOM SEEN RICHARD NICKEL PHOTOS DOCUMENTING THE DESTRUCTION OF BURNHAM AND ROOT'S CHURCH OF THE COVENANT
HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT CHICAGO BOOK AND EPHEMERA COLLECTION JOINS BLDG 51 MUSEUM ARCHIVE AT END OF 2018
CHICAGO'S "DYNAMIC WEEK" CELEBRATED IN PART WITH STAINLESS STEEL BUILDING PLAQUES
EVER-EXPANDING COLLECTION OF DIGITIZED IMAGES FROM COLLABORATION WITH THE ART INSTITUTE'S RYERSON AND BURNHAM ARCHIVE POSTED DAILY
FURTHER READING:
2017: YEAR IN REVIEW
BLDG. 51 MUSEUM 2017 ACQUISITION HIGHLIGHTS
DOCUMENTING CHICAGO'S ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENT IN 2017
A SOBERING RECOLLECTION OF CHICAGO'S DISAPPEARING CITYSCAPE IN 2016
2016: A YEAR OF EXTRACTING TIME CAPSULES FROM CHICAGO CHURCH BUILDINGS
A DECADE DOCUMENTING THE DEATH OF BUILDINGS: A PERSONAL JOURNEY THROUGH 10 YEARS OF SALVAGING
OVER A DECADE DEVOTED TO DOCUMENTING AND SALVAGING CHICAGO'S ARCHITECTURAL PAST
A RETROSPECTIVE OF DEMOLITIONS, SALVAGES, EXCAVATIONS AND, MUSEUM ACQUISITIONS IN 2015
This entry was posted in , Miscellaneous, Salvages, Bldg. 51, Events & Announcements, Featured Posts, Bldg. 51 Feed & Press on January 2 2019 by Eric
WORDLWIDE SHIPPING
If required, please contact an Urban Remains sales associate.
NEW PRODUCTS DAILY
Check back daily as we are constantly adding new products.
PREMIUM SUPPORT
We're here to help answer any question. Contact us anytime!
SALES & PROMOTIONS
Join our newsletter to get the latest information