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Chicago Tudor Revival AF
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mrillinois.bsky.social
Literary technology in windows in SLU’s former library.
Scroll Manuscript Press Computer
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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dmercer.bsky.social
1733 W. Chicago Ave, Chicago. The building is from 1929, B. A. Comm, architect. That angry bats are so random.
Terra cotta decoration at the top of a one-story commercial building. Most of the terra cotta is white with brown speckles. This particular section has an arch on top and some square pillars on the side. In the center is a face mask from a suite of armor in the same speckled terra cotta; a shield with blue and white checks, all surrounded by green foliage with yellow berries. At the base of the two pillars are two angry bat-like creatures with wings spread.
November 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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ladytophamcatt.bsky.social
Shop drawing of a terra cotta Schlitz belted globe insignia, likely destined to grace a tied house

📸 Northwestern Terra Cotta Collection, National Building Museum
Photo of a pen and ink shop drawing for a terra cotta Schlitz belted globe insignia. Schlitz's logo is exactly what it sounds like -- a globe wearing a belt. The belt says TRADE MARK on one side of the buckle and SCHLITZ on the other. An orange box stamped on the side of the page and filled in by hand tells us this was ordered by architect Lewis Lendle, working on behalf of Schlitz Brewing Co.
November 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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dmercer.bsky.social
Parallel lines
Grouping of twelves color photographs illustrating parallel lines. From the top left, going L to R: elevated train supports; horizontal metal fence; vertical stripes on the Aon Building; power lines; decorated wood ceiling beams; bricks in a sort of chevron pattern; vertical blinds in a window; grain silos; boat docks; vertical mullions on a skyscraper; horizontal arrangement of red, orange, gold, and white tile; red tiles on a roof with snow between each row.
November 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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ladytophamcatt.bsky.social
Oh. Hell. Yeah.

Far South Side of Chicago, 9:14pm
Extremely vibrant bright pink and purple showing of the aurora borealis.
November 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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thedazzlingone.bsky.social
Uh... AURORA BOREALIS!? AT THIS TIME OF YEAR, AT THIS TIME OF DAY, IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY, LOCALIZED ENTIRELY WITHIN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD?!
Aurora borealis, pink and green in the night sky. Aurora borealis, pink and green in the night sky. Aurora borealis, pink and green in the night sky. Aurora borealis, pink and green in the night sky.
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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everylotchicago.bsky.social
5046 West Chicago Avenue
Google Streetview of the property with PIN10 1604425031: 5046 West Chicago Avenue
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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dmercer.bsky.social
Painted ladies in the snow, Oak Park, Illinois
Large Victorian home painted sage green, purple, orange, and yellow with snow flakes falling and snow on the ground. Large home painted dark red with white trim Queen Anne-style home painted two shades of salmon with purple accents on the gable some of the trim, the brackets, and the door A complicated Queen Anne-style home with a large wraparound porch, multiple gables, overhanging eaves with brackets, painted light blue, dark blue, and violet.
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
tudoraf.bsky.social
Virulently opposed to November snow except for scenes like this
Night photo of a corner two-story 1920s store building, clad on the second floor and parapet in white terra cotta, above a ground floor with a facade of what look like black shiny blocks. Lights illuminate terra cotta pilasters, lintels, cornice, and tips of parapet. Sign says Bar-B-Q TONIGHT. There are snow flurries and snow visible on surfaces.
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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dmercer.bsky.social
Former Spink's Menswear store, 4753 W. Madison, Chicago. The store had this great sign but I think there was a fire there within the last 10 years and the sign is gone. The building was built in 1923, Z. Erol Smith, architect.
Two-story red brick commercial building. The second floor windows are filled in with glass block. The first floor is covered by a corrugated metal door, painted red, black, and green with symbols of peace and various religions. There is some nice herringbone brick work above the second floor windows. Photo of a sign painted green, red, and white advertising Spink's Men's Wear. "Bondshire Dress Shoes" and "Thorogood Job Fitted Work Shoes" and highlighted on the sign, which was once neon. Building permit for 4753 W. Madison, dated 12/29/1922. Owner was O.R. Trayner, architect Z. Erol Smith. The cost is listed as $11,500 and the final report was issued on 10/1/1923.
November 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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tracyseneca.bsky.social
Brisk East Side jaunt
Abandoned house at S Macinaw and 90th Elgin, Joliet, and Eastern Railroad Bridge Graffiti dinosaur Tied house at 94th and Ewing. Word “dinners” is painted on the window.
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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dancaroselli.bsky.social
I feel like I just found a gold nugget! During my daily streetview ambling I just now discovered a 1925 apartment building designed by RM Schindler that was thought to have been demolished for the 101 freeway. But it wasn’t! It was *moved.* (first screenshot is from US Modernist)
Old b&w photo of an international style courtyard-ish apartment building with balconies and trellises. “1925 - The S. Breacher Apartments, 5806 Carlton Way, Los Angeles CA. Destroyed around 1947 for the 101 Freeway.” The same building, alive and well, in light green, on streetview.
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM
tudoraf.bsky.social
@everylotchicago.bsky.social so dang good on the 900 block of N. Lavergne, had to look these 2-flats up. 906-48 N. Lavergne, 1914-16 (Ernest N. Braucher, architect)
Street View of row of at least a dozen red brick two-flats, bay on left, porch on right. Cornices and parapets decorated w/ courses and blocks of cream brick and limestone. Parapets feature elaborate crenelation, including triangles and stacked rectangles and squares. Scan of old fire insurance map, showing overhead view of row of 15 two-story pink (brick) buildings along a north-south street, each marked "D" (dwelling). Mostly rectangular with some protuberances on each building's right side, for bay and front porch. Each building has a yellow (wood) porch area in the back. Some front porches are yellow, other pink. Big ol' compass rose in street.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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posts-cards.bsky.social
Buckingham Fountain at Night, 1960s
Color photo postcard of buckingham fountain at night, lit up orange spraying water, Mobilgas and Shell signs lit up on the Michigan Avenue cliff in the background
November 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
tudoraf.bsky.social
I don't use the phrase "hardcore whimsy" lightly
Color photo of front facade of a small industrial building in red brick, edge of a clay tile roof visible on top. No windows, only a door with a basic surround. All sorts of brickwork going on! Three rows of raised bricks along bottom part, slim would-be quoins at corners above. In blind arch above front door symmetrical pattern of tiles/bricks converging. But real fun is under the deep eaves, with little brick-colored tiles forming flower-like discs and diamonds, some on brick, some on stucco fields. Color photo of industrial building in OP, showing side facade and tower toward back. Same delightful patterns under eaves. Three tall windows protected by grates. Red clay tile roof above copper gutters/eaves. In the rear a small tower, in same style with circular window.
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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marigoldmimsy.bsky.social
went for a walk, happened upon a beautiful castle guarded by shields and gates

Austin High School, chicago public schools
a yellow brick school with ivy growing on the side with decorative details above the doors the repeating decorative detail on this cps school is stars there are two of these panels at the top of the school depicting the sun and time shields above the doors with iron gates protecting the doors
November 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
tudoraf.bsky.social
The unfuckablewith fascia, and some midcentury tile, from 6435 N. California, built as the Northtown branch of CPL, ca. 1962 (Paul Gerhardt Jr., architect). Currently houses a refugee aid organization.
Color photo of a long one-story institutional building in red brick, with sections of tall windows and entrance in center. Roof mostly flat but rising to a triangle in center. Roof fascia metal and quite substantial. It's fall and trees in front have a few yellow leaves. Color photo of a wall of small rectangular tiles, mostly white with variable brown mottling, also solid orange, gray, and black.
November 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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carbonated.bsky.social
full moon, Chicago style #aic #dailylakeglass
cpp of a painting in the art institute of Chicago: Larch Forest by Full Moon by Emilie Mediz-Pelikan. It's on display as part of the symbolists exhibit which is excellent cpp of my white lady left hand holding several pieces of clear and brown weathered glass from lake michigan, while a newly risen full moon is visible just above the waterline along the pink horizon
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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marigoldmimsy.bsky.social
stained glass should be in more schools

schurz high school front office, chicago public schools
stained glass work, 3 panels with woodwork encasing it with yellow and dark blue chevrons at the top of the panel
November 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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allisonanne.com
four for today: election tuesday
hydrangea in the sunlight secessionist textile at the mia my p.o. box full of stuff “i voted” sticker on a manhole cover
November 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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ladytophamcatt.bsky.social
Another beauty, taken that same day. West Ridge, I was entirely unfamiliar with your rather enchanting game.

Architect: George Maher, 1911
Color photo of a one story home with a prominent chimney under a moody sky. From this angle, details of the home are blocked by the presence of a yellow arbor, but what can be seen is utterly charming. Color photo of a one story home of brown stucco with a brick base, taken from an angle. The front yard is filled with flowers and greenery and the home looks magical. Color photo of the absolutely adorable brick-paved entrance to a one story home of dark brown stucco and cheery yellow wood with earthy red accents. Two pale yellow Adirondack chairs sit under a bolder yellow pergola entrance. Both sides of the walk are a riot of greenery and blooming flowers. Lovely chonky chimney. Could be ordinary, but no, they've taken the time to do some cool stuff with the brickwork, rendering this design extraordinary.
November 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
tudoraf.bsky.social
It must feel really good for the building to get re-stuccoed like this.
Color photo of front of two-story single family home with a refreshed white stucco facade. Roof and small porch roof in red tiles. Windows to each side of front door have lunettes with tiles in diamond shapes. Three paired casement windows on second floor. A tree obscures a bit of the left side of the home.
November 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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everylotbotmke.betterstreetsmke.com
1436 N 51ST ST, 53208

Year Built: 1923
Zoning: Two-Family Residential 3 [RT3]
Assessment: $284,600
Neighborhood: WASHINGTON HEIGHTS
November 4, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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sorenspicknall.bsky.social
He's just a little guy
A photo of a one and a half story house situated at the back of a city lot, with a shed and a small grass yard in front of it. The house is likely well over a century old, but its original shadow and other details are totally obscured by structural additions, white vinyl siding, red metal window awnings, and other accumulated modifications.
November 4, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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sorenspicknall.bsky.social
Earlier
A photo of a two stall garage emptying out onto a city side street, with a two story brick building nearby across an alley and a three story building clad in vinyl siding on the other side. A fence next to the garage has full size doors in it instead of gates. A very 1980s car dashboard, burnt red in color, with lots of analog gauges and HVAC vents whose square grid design invokes fascination with computerized electronics. The steering wheel is a two-spoke plastic and rubber number making a sort of capital letter A at the hub. A side door to a midcentury light sandy brick building with sections of concrete cladding breaking up the facade. A small sign next to the door reads "West Lane Apartments 754"
November 3, 2025 at 4:34 AM