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Lesser building nerd
606 walk featuring brutalist, Renaissance Revival, neo-eclectic, and Very Brick styles
November 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
MCM cousins in West Ridge, 2956 W. Bryn Mawr and 2814 W. Morse, both likely mid-1950s
November 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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Before the world knew Prince, he was just a kid in North Minneapolis learning piano by ear in this modest rambler. Now his childhood home has been recognized by the City as a local landmark. minneapolismn.gov/resident-services/property-housing/preservation/landmarks-districts/landmarks/nelson-house
November 13, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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There are few things I love more than a bonkers ass door surround on a residential entrance. Going hard AF just for the love of the game.

Architect: W Mead Walter, 1908
November 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Feeding my head, heart and soul with art and architecture downtown on a gorgeous fall day.
November 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Old St. Joseph/St. Clare Hospital in Alton, a beautiful late art deco behemoth from 1937
November 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Underrated maple tree foliage in Indian Boundary Park
November 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Former J. Barabas Mens Wear, 1725 W. Chicago Ave., Chicago. The building was built in 1925, Worthmann & Steinbach, architects.
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Literary technology in windows in SLU’s former library.
November 13, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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1733 W. Chicago Ave, Chicago. The building is from 1929, B. A. Comm, architect. That angry bats are so random.
November 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Shop drawing of a terra cotta Schlitz belted globe insignia, likely destined to grace a tied house

📸 Northwestern Terra Cotta Collection, National Building Museum
November 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Parallel lines
November 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Oh. Hell. Yeah.

Far South Side of Chicago, 9:14pm
November 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Uh... AURORA BOREALIS!? AT THIS TIME OF YEAR, AT THIS TIME OF DAY, IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY, LOCALIZED ENTIRELY WITHIN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD?!
November 12, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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5046 West Chicago Avenue
November 12, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Painted ladies in the snow, Oak Park, Illinois
November 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Virulently opposed to November snow except for scenes like this
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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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.
November 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Brisk East Side jaunt
November 9, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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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)
November 9, 2025 at 3:32 AM
@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)
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Buckingham Fountain at Night, 1960s
November 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I don't use the phrase "hardcore whimsy" lightly
November 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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went for a walk, happened upon a beautiful castle guarded by shields and gates

Austin High School, chicago public schools
November 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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.
November 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM