Historic Preservation job in my hometown - the Preservation Resource Center is in such a lovely Gothic Revival warehouse by the GNO bridge. Great opportunity to help make preservation work in New Orleans!

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Congrats to author and editor Marci Uihlein, the contributors and the team at @illinoispress.bsky.social for bringing Ricker's text and diagrams to a new audience with new context

Spotted in the wild! Terrific new book on architect, engineer & teacher Nathan Ricker, founder of the first public university program in architecture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1873. The architects of 19th c. Chicago were shaped by his rigorous teaching - a great new resource!

The 1953 Replinger "Economy House" was also featured in McCall's Magazine in 1957 when Dot won a competition to redesign a bedroom for 3 boys (this cabinet is awesome). Better Homes & Gardens photographed the home as well.

The Replinger House was designed in the 90s with studio space for Dot and John. It replaced an earlier MCM home John designed for their family in 1953. He worked with the university's "Small Homes Council" & this article championed the '53 "Economy House" as a solution to housing in Champaign

Another home from the Making Place for the Arts exhibition - the Dot and John Replinger House & Studios, designed by John (architect) for him and his wife Dorothy, a fiber artist and weaver whose work should be (much!) better known. The work here is "Sainte Chapelle" made for the home's entry hall

From the exterior, the Margaret Erlanger house presents a blank brick wall (Chicago common brick) to the street, preserving her sense of privacy and security as a single woman living alone. From the rear it opens to a private patio backyard.

From our exhibition, Making Place for the Arts at Home, the first of 4 houses: the Margaret Erlanger House designed for the professor who established the Department of Dance at Illinois (architect Jack Baker, 1964). A radically simple design, double-height living room + space for dance, music, art

Since moving to Illinois a year and a half ago, I've been working on a project about a group of postwar modernist architects in Champaign-Urbana (and started living in a crazy house by one of them). The exhibition based on part of that work is being installed now - look forward to sharing more soon!

Hello Bluesky - quiet poster here sharing architecture, urbanism, and heritage/preservation research and teaching, plus telephone buildings (like this favorite in Columbus, Indiana).