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recently added salvaged chicago american architectural artifacts, industrial furniture and objects
the following image gallery offers a glimpse at the latest american architectural, medical, and industrial artifacts and/or miscellaneous objects added to the ever-expanding urban remains virtual catalog (over 60,000 items digitized/cataloged over the past 15 years). the newly acquired items have been documented, cleaned/refinished (if need be) and photographed prior to being added to their respective website categories. -
considerable number of newly acquired salvaged chicago architectural artifacts and medical furniture pieces added to website catalog
the following image gallery offers a glimpse at the most recent american architectural, medical, and industrial artifacts and/or miscellaneous objects added to our ever-expanding urban remains virtual catalog (over 50,000 catalog listings to date). the newly acquired items have been documented, cleaned/refinished (if need be) and photographed prior to being added to their respective website categories. -
latest architectural ornament, various objects, and industrial furniture added to urban remains website
the following image gallery offers a glimpse at the most recent american architectural, medical, and industrial artifacts and/or miscellaneous objects added to our ever-expanding urban remains virtual catalog (over 50,000 catalog listings to date). the newly acquired items have been documented, cleaned/refinished (if need be) and photographed prior to being added to their respective urban remains website categories. -
latest architectural artifact and objects culled from urban remains catalog
the following image gallery offers a glimpse at the most recent american architectural, medical, and industrial artifacts and/or miscellaneous objects added to our ever-expanding urban remains virtual catalog (over 45,000 catalog listings to date). the newly acquired items have been documented, cleaned/refinished (if need be) and photographed prior to being added to their respective urban remains website categories. -
latest salvaged architectural artifacts and industrial objects added to urban remains website
the following image gallery offers a glimpse at the most recent american architectural, medical, and industrial artifacts and/or miscellaneous objects added to our ever-expanding urban remains virtual catalog (over 40,000 catalog listings to date). the newly acquired items have been documented, cleaned/refinished (if need be) and photographed prior to being added to their respective urban remains website categories. -
most recent acquisitions now available on urban remains website
the following image gallery offers a glimpse at the most recent american architectural, medical, and industrial artifacts and/or miscellaneous objects added to our ever-expanding urban remains virtual catalog (over 40,000 catalog listings to date). the newly acquired items have been documented, cleaned/refinished (if need be) and photographed prior to being added to their respective urban remains website categories. -
latest salvage chicago architectural acquisitions now available through urban remains online catalog
the following gallery offers a glimpse at the most recent american architectural, medical, and industrial artifacts and/or miscellaneous objects added to our ever-expanding urban remains virtual catalog (over 35,500 catalog listings to date). the newly acquired items have been documented, cleaned/refinished (if need be) and photographed prior to being added to their respective urban remains website categories. -
highlights from the soon-to-be published "unearthing chicago" bldg. 51 museum book
the following photographs (and collages) were taken from more than 546 folders containing over 9,800 images of jobsites and salvage work "in the field," as well as unearthed artifacts cleaned and assembled in my studio afterward. all of my urban excavation began two years ago, after the discovery of a single william h. hutchinson (whh) cobalt blue soda bottle at... -
art deco slip shade fixtures, vintage examination room furniture, palmolive building elevator indicators, majolica tiles, and figural brownstone rondels
the following gallery offers a glimpse at the most recent american architectural, medical, and industrial artifacts and/or miscellaneous objects added to our ever-expanding urban remains virtual catalog (over 26,500 catalog listings to date). the newly acquired items have been documented, cleaned/refinished (if need be) and photographed prior to being added to their respective urban remains website categories. -
sullivan-designed auditorium theater proscenium vault domes now available through bldg. 51 museum
the bldg. 51 museum is offering a first-ever, limited edition line of faithfully recreated cast plaster auditorium theater (1889) proscenium vault perforated domes designed by architect louis h. sullivan and executed by chicago-based decorators supply company. the full-scale "beehive" domes were made possible through a collaboration between the bldg. 51 museum and decorators' supply company. earlier this year, after i was given... -
sizable collection of "chicago style" cast iron newel posts, interior floor registers, and f.p. smith ornamental iron added to online catalog
a vast collection of 19th century exterior dearborn foundry newel posts, tuttle & bailey floor registers, and miscellaneous ornamental ironwork hand-crafted by f.p. smith was recently acquired by urban remains earlier this week. the american victorian-era interior and exterior residential ironwork was salvaged from demolished cottages, italianates, and greystones across chicago over the past twenty years. the following group of... -
with objects and artifacts arriving on daily basis, urban remains' virtual online catalog will greatly expand in 2017
with so many architectural artifacts, medical and industrial objects, signage and everything else in between, it's becoming increasingly difficult to continue listing new items on a daily basis. in 2017 however, we have brought onboard additional staff to ensure at least ten new items are added to their respective categories each and everyday. below is just a random sampling of... -
latest inventory includes gothic style church lighting, early chicago terra cotta, and various medical/industrial furniture
the following photo gallery offers a glimpse of the most recent artifacts salvaged and/or acquired and posted in the urban remains massive website catalog (15 new items are added daily in their respective categories). this year marks the ten year anniversary of urban remains, and from day one, one of the primary goals -- now and since 2006 -- has been to have... -
recent acquisitions include vintage medical furniture, stained glass, millwork, unearthed bottles, gauges, terra cotta
the following photo gallery offers a glimpse of the most recent artifacts salvaged and/or acquired and posted in the urban remains massive website catalog (15 new items are added daily in their respective categories). this year marks the ten year anniversary of urban remains, and from day one, one of the primary goals -- now and since 2006 -- has been to have... -
fisher theater building theater seat end echoes a most unusual design treatment used in the fisher theater
among the non-chicago based artifacts in the bldg. 51 museum collection is a highly unusual depression-era theater seat end, included in the catalog for its reflection of exotic movie palace architecture in the mid-west, and as an object designed for chicago architects anker graven and arthur mayger. the distinctive polychromatic painted auditorium seat end features a detachable mayan revival figural... -
thousands of artifacts unearthed behind an 1860's-era building once housing a saloon
i recently detailed the partial demolition of a pre-fire, multi-story brick structure once occupied by nicholas eckhardt, whose family lived in the building while operating a saloon on the street level during the post-civil war era and on. after the wreckers had torn down the rear section, an excavation began which has proven to be overwhelmingly fruitful. the demolition effected a...
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