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Chicago Tudor Revival AF
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While downed by a cold, I had the pleasure of reading the latest issue of @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social, in which Anna Ballan shares the good news of three sister apartment buildings in the Bronx, including the Villa Victoria, 2475 Palisade Ave. (📷realtor sites)
nyra.nyc/articles/jan...
Realtor photo of a 6ish-story apartment building in red brick, speckled with clinker brick and rough stone. To the left on the top, a three-story section of half-timbering with rectangular designs. To the right on the top, a series of terraces, affording views of the Hudson River, which runs behind the building. Realtor photo of an outdoor stairway leading down a garden area. The rough stone of the adjoining building almost perfectly matches the trunk of a tree to the right of the stairway. Realtor photo showing several rooms of a classic 1920s apartment, with gentle arches separating rooms and honeyed wood floors. A whitewashed brick fireplace features decorative tiles. Realtor photo of a high terrace looking out onto a barely visible Hudson River under an overcast sky.
January 28, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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ladytophamcatt.bsky.social
These designs are so rare! This ballroom in Detroit is in extreme disrepair, but the bonkers level of exuberant creativity this thing exudes remains incredible.

Vanity Ballroom (as seen by me in August 2025)
Detroit, MI
Architect: Charles Agee, 1929
Old pic: Michigan Architect and Engineer, 1930
Black and white clipping from the Michigan Architect and Engineer showing the Vanity Ballroom soon after opening in 1930. Color photo of the Vanity Ballroom as seen in August of 2025. It is a two story corner building with cast stone accents, green tile and intricate brickwork in varying shades of orange and brown. Color detail fo the first floor of the Vanity Ballroom. The shop windows that were originally on this level are covered with weathered wooden boards, but above this can be seen an intricately designed frieze featuring brown on orange brick stylized running jaguars. Climbing vines are reach into the frame from the right, reclaiming this space for nature. Color detail of some of the intricate brickwork and cast stone ornamenting a tower on the Vanity Ballroom. Centered in the image is a stepped arch framed by fluted, cast stone pilasters with capitals featuring stylized faces reminiscent of the type found in Aztec art. The arch is repeated in different materials: green tile, orange brick and finally cast stone. Above this, a dark brown and orange chevron pattern in brick continues the upward momentum. The brick jaguars are also present, this time framing the chevron, and another set of taller fluted pilasters sit on either side of them. Weeds grow out of the damaged roof.
January 27, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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tracyseneca.bsky.social
Roscoe and something
January 25, 2026 at 8:34 PM
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ladytophamcatt.bsky.social
Hell yeah, former Meyercord Company Building. I've been waiting for you to show up on here! The original interiors were by Abel Faidy, who was aptly initialed because they do indeed go hard AF.

Architect: Julius Floto, 1938
Old pics: buff.ly/4f9dmnh
Color photo of a two story, tan brick Art Moderne building with a white SUV parked in front, blocking full view of the entrance. Each corner has a curving expanse of wraparound glass brick, and the building has a central bay of glass brick stretching from the second to third story, above an obviously remodeled plain entrance. Windows at ground level have also been covered. Black and white photo of the same building in the 1930s. Each expanse of glass bricks glows, and the original entrance is revealed. When built, the central bay had glass brick extending down to the first floor and surrounding the doors. The now covered windows at ground level were also once curving wraparound windows of glass brick. Two black photos of the interior of the building, showing what the corner offices looked like. The room itself is curvy, and each features a boxy desk that the rooms seem to flow around. Light too flows in through the glass block windows directly behind the desk; these rooms must have been awash in natural light. Two black photos of the interior of the building, showing what the corner offices looked like. The room itself is curvy, and each features a boxy desk that the rooms seem to flow around. Light too flows in through the glass block windows directly behind the desk; these rooms must have been awash in natural light. Black and white photos of the interior of the building. One showcases the specially designed floor at the bottom of a stairwell. The terrazzo floor features the Meyercord's logo -- a hand pulling back a decal. The other photo shows what I believe might be a waiting room, featuring some modern art and seating, and an abundance of natural light flowing in from windows near the back of the room.
January 25, 2026 at 3:36 PM
tudoraf.bsky.social
WINTER STORM UPDATE
Color close-up of a design resembling an eight or a sixteenth note on a tan brick wall: blue glazed block on bottom left, raised black brick for the note's stem and flag. Little ridge of snow on top on the note flag, and flurries in the air.
January 25, 2026 at 6:32 PM
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atlasboscrispa.bsky.social
Wartime Boom (b.1940)
Detroit, Wayne County Michigan.

Detroit profited a lot from WW2. We made munitions for the Allies before entering the war.

📸 Google Pixel 8 Pro

#photography #architecture #tudor #oldbuildings #houses #winter #snow #lightroom #suburban #detroit #wayne #michigan
A late Tudor design. It's more tame gable is accented with decorative wooden framing. The brickwork is designed to look a lot more textured.
January 25, 2026 at 5:24 AM
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buckweaver.bsky.social
Timeline cleanse on a tough winter day. Take care of yourselves.
A deer peeks around the columns of a standalone mausoleum and stares at the silly human taking its picture as light snow falls on a winter afternoon at Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago. Behind the deer are tall stalks of brown cattails next to a frozen pond (unseen). The trees in the distance are bare. The temperature is in the single digits.
January 25, 2026 at 12:30 AM
tudoraf.bsky.social
Stucco behemoth appreciation post
Color photo of a wiiiiide two-story stucco home with a hipped roof featuring a large central dormer resembling a robot face, and not a kind one. Stucco is white, as is overcast sky and snow on ground. Maroon trim around the many windows. On ground floor a front section juts out in the center. On the second floor, above an arched widow, is a skinny swag.
January 24, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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ziibiing.com
this photo. minneapolis. 💜

📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.
January 23, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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dmercer.bsky.social
Former Ohel Jacob synagogue, 1448 S. Homan, Chicago. It has been home to the Carey Tercentenary AME church since the 1950s. Built in 1927, Harry Glube, architect. Clipping from the April 17, 1927, Chicago Tribune.
Red brick Byzantine-style former synagogue of red brick and stone. A pediment at the top contains stone tablets with Hebrew writing on them. Below that are three stone arches and arched windows filled in with colored glass that is probably not original. Next is a stone "balcony" with a carved Star of David in the center. Two sets of double doors trimmed in stone inscribed with Hebrew writing lead into the church. Artist's rendering in the April 17, 1927, Tribune. The caption states that the synagogue will cost $100,000 and will accommodate 750 people.
January 23, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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john-morris.bsky.social
A set of three three-flats and a corner store and flats building at the corner of California and Armitage in Logan Square

Oil ink #linocut print with a splash of color via oil pastel for the three-flat covered in ivy
A linocut relief print of residential buildings in Chicago, featuring a mix of styles. Romanesque on the far left, light Neoclassical in the left and middle. And a store and flats and building on the right features a mostly classical ornament with some Victorian whimsical ornament. The second building with ivy is colored green while the rest of the buildings are monochrome
January 22, 2026 at 11:13 PM
tudoraf.bsky.social
Back on my old paper warehouse shit
Color photo of a large entrance to a former industrial building. Arched limestone surround for door and large transom, now covered up. Large green tiles on archivolt, extending almost to ground. Rest of surround are a buttressed pier on each side of door, stone except for delicious (but pointy) bit of brick filling, ending in coping resembling folded-paper hats. In between, above door, a 1950s looking "333."
January 22, 2026 at 12:26 AM
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miadecorativearts.bsky.social
Section of a frieze https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1965/
Decorative Frieze from old Farmers and Merchants Bank, Hector Minnesota; terra cotta These decorative terra-cotta tiles for the Farmers and Merchants Bank in Hector, Minnesota were designed by George Grant Elmslie in his own style of organic ornamentation, developed during twenty years as Louis Sullivan's chief draftsman. Stylized plant forms combined with geometric patterns, repeated throughout the facade, separate the brick lower level from the light stucco second story. This section was removed in 1970 when the bank was remodeled.
January 21, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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robertloerzel.bsky.social
A Chicago Municipal Device (a "Y" inside a circle), spotted in the Gage Park neighborhood.
A circle surrounding a "Y" shape is on a concrete pillar topped by snow, with fencing on either side of the pillar.
January 21, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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dmercer.bsky.social
Windows for Wednesday
A mosaic of 12 windows with a variety of shapes, including round, demilune, arched, keyhole and rectangular. Several of them have either stained, leaded, or beveled glass.
January 21, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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artdecomagpie.bsky.social
Footbridge at Exeter St Davids station, showing original GWR tiling (1938), and murals by Bridget Hall (1992)
January 14, 2026 at 1:07 PM
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posts-cards.bsky.social
went to a schurz high school basketball game and i really think chicago architecture bluesky should adopt this team
sun on the exterior of schurz high, bricks and eaves a road passageway through the building the schurz gym, seating areas on the second level behind the baskets, purple bleachers kid from uplift going up for a layup
January 21, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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dmercer.bsky.social
South wall of the former Guyon Hotel, 4000 W. Washington Blvd. in Chicago. It continues to deteriorate with no savior in sight. Built in 1927, Jens Jensen (not the landscape architect), architect. It is a riot of terra cotta decoration and deserves a better fate.
Side view of a 10-story building built of cream brick and decorated lavishly at the top with red terra cotta. The first floor is boarded up and covered with graffiti. All of the windows on all floors are either boarded up or contain no covering at all. There are brick quoins at the corners and some arched windows on the second floor. The top is where the party is happening, with Gothic arches surrounded by red terra cotta, terra cotta medallions, a terra cotta cornice with brackets and arched terra cotta ornamentation under it. And this is the plain side.
January 20, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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ladytophamcatt.bsky.social
Still my most fervent wish
ladytophamcatt.bsky.social Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · Jan 20
Not really his style, alas, but sometimes I wish he could unmoor himself from this block of granite & walk around DC stepping on the folks that deserve it the most
Color photo of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial by sculptor Lei Yixin. Taken by myself July of 2022.
January 19, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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chgohoods.bsky.social
Today we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the greatest Americans to ever live. Here is art I recently made for @6figga-dilla.bsky.social of the iconic photo of Dr. King shooting pool on the West Side of Chicago in 1966, created in the style that Dr. Margaret Burroughs used in her art.
January 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM
tudoraf.bsky.social
Computer, rotate and enhanc--whoa, there buddy, let's settle down, nothing to be afraid of ..
Section of Street View photo: on top of a brick parapet a small statue of a horse reared up, front hooves high in the air.
January 19, 2026 at 5:01 AM
tudoraf.bsky.social
Bear Down
www.artic.edu/exhibitions/...
Color photo of a section of a vivid painting of a dozen bears on a hillside and in a tree, eating prey, roaring, and generally chilling.
January 18, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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sophiama.bsky.social
#ethereal and dreamy in the near west side of #chicago courtesy of my old #digicam

#photo #photography #photographer #film #digital #camera #art #aesthetic #dream #architecture #church #building #skyscraper #midwest #pretty #city #urban
a view of the iconic Sears tower rising above a foregrounded Fulton Market skyline into a hazy/cloudy yet bright Chicago winter sky. Looking up at an ornate, statue-studded brick and stone church building, topped with a cupola’ed dome, from a street (with telephone wires & streetlight visible) in Chicago’s west town area a close up shot of the front entrance of a Catholic church’s attached administrative/convent/school building, with diamond-patterned stained glass detailing the doorway.
January 18, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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westtowns-urbanist.bsky.social
And time for the trip home. Starting off with a Red from Wilson to Lake.
Southbound Red Line train approaching Wilson station on a snowy night
January 18, 2026 at 6:34 AM
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sidestreets.bsky.social
You’re my hero, #9 🚌
A CTA #9 bus to 95th arrives in the blowing snow.
January 18, 2026 at 5:20 AM