RT @LynnBecker: At about a billion years old, I've just realized I don't think I've ever been inside the Water Tower Pumping Station before….

Why the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is at Amsterdam’s big Mahler Festival

120-year-old Jackson Park pavilion sits as a park district ruin

Update: the fire took place on the 15th floor, two people were hospitalized. One is in serious condition and one is stable. .

A dramatic event this morning ~ as our neighbors at 1040 N. State St. (Newberry Plaza) had a severe fire at 8 AM. The fire was quickly put out by firefighters🧑‍🚒, although we haven’t heard if anyone was injured.

1150 N. LaSalle is festive, despite being gutted on the inside as it undergoes renovation. Built in 1889, it has spent 100+ years as flats, a rooming house, and a hotel for Japanese Americans released from U. S. internment camps post WWII. It’s now a single family residence.

As Granite Cladding Continues, Glass Art Installation Highlights Obama Center Museum Tower Construction -

RT @BlairKamin: What a pleasure to encounter Jeanne Gang’s wood honeycomb of a pavilion at the Nature Boardwalk at Lincoln Park Zoo. A rece….

RT @BlairKamin: Remembering David Garrard Lowe, whose book 'Lost Chicago' helped the city find itself - Chicago Sun-Times .

A failed yesterday/today ~ we wanted to make a comparison of Benjamin Marshall’s 1201 N. Astor, completed in 1910 at the corner of Astor and Division Streets. We shall have to return when the leaves 🍂 have fallen.

Although today is the official start of autumn 🍂, we’re posting a favorite photograph of Alma & Zachary Taylor Davis’ daughter Mary Louise, taken after a snowstorm. She is standing in front of the family home at 934 East 45th Street in Kenwood, c. 1934.

…An attractive bungalow on the roof is comprised of a living room, dining room, kitchen, three master bedrooms, threebaths, and two maids’ rooms with bath. Laundries and storage rooms around the ground floor.".

Although not mentioned in the portfolio, the building was designed by architects Fugard & Knapp and completed in 1919. We are happy to report that the "rooftop bungalow" still exists, now billed as a penthouse, with 4000 ft.² of living space and a 2000 square-foot terrace.

"The building is an architecturally beautiful one of eleven stories. It contains sixteen eight room apartments from the 3rd to 11th floor, which are comprised of living room, dining room, kitchen, three master bedrooms, with three baths, and two maids’ rooms with a bath….

Yesterday we took a stroll over to Streeterville and 220 East Walton Place, the site of another building featured in the 1928 Portfolio of Fine Apartment Homes.

Yesterday/Today: North State Street at Division Street, looking north, 1936 vs 2024.

RT @BlairKamin: In addition to his @Suntimes architecture critic gig, @LEEBEY is now ABC7 Chicago’s architecture critic, he just announced.….

There is an abundance of closets, vacuum installation, incinerator, large refrigerators, and vapor heat. Garage facilities are conveniently close.". Today 21-31 East Elm St. is condominiums.

… It is colonial and design, which treatment has been carried out in the entrance halls and lobbies. The living rooms and dining rooms are proportional, the living rooms having wood-burning fireplaces. The chambers are large, the principal, one having a wood-burning fireplace.

Returning to East Elm Street, today we’re visiting architect W.D. Mann’s 21-31 East Elm Street, which was completed in 1919. From the 1928 Portfolio of Fine Apartment Homes: "The building is a three-story structure containing 12 apartments of six rooms and three baths.