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Chicago Tudor Revival AF
@tudoraf.bsky.social
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Congrats! Wonderful Chicago baby.
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Summer definitely over in Lincolnwood
Color photo of same Dairy Star sign in previous posts. Now reads: THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER GREAT YEAR!
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Edgebrook Towers, start at Morse and Central. Heavy suburbs anywhere vibes.
November 12, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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That's a sweet bungalow!
November 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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South of Devon in West Ridge, 6236 N. Albany. Here's the permit!
Scan of an old building permit for 6236 N. Albany, a 2-story apartment building, 24[superscript 8] x 65 x 30. B. Bernat? owner, E. Steinborn architect. Cost: $10,000. 12/13/1939, final report 4/22/1940.
November 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I love these! My contribution to the theme, built 1939-40.
Color photo of a modernist two-flat in tan brick. Parapet and stretch between the first and second floors have courses of recessed red brick, making neat stripes. Large three-paned windows for each apartment, in center-right. On left, small entrance section in rough stone, possibly artificial. A pair of small windows each on section between floors and on second floor, likely giving light to a stairwell.
November 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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I am so sorry. She was one of my favorite online cat friends.
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Sorry, these are even better. 4906-14 W. Iowa, 1915 (Harlev & Aga architects)
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Street View of four two-flats in different shades of red brick. Large entry porches/second-floor balcony on left, pushing way out beyond bay on right. Cornices, parapets and sections above second-floor windows a riot of dichromatic brickwork, cream on red, variously, a snake-like symmetrical series of right angles, boxes with cream brick filling, dash-filled corbels, and what appears to be Torah scrolls. Mildly crenelated parapets also varied: stepped, pedimented, triangular and semicircle.
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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🙂While confirming the completion date (final date on permit was 1937 but work seemed done in 1929), I learned this building hosted boxing matches!
Scan from Chicago Tribune 3/2/1931. Under Fight Cards listing, one for Summerdale Arena, 2519 Devon avenue. Lists fights, including Sticks O'Connor v. Dan McGann and Edgerson Fountain v. Larry Campbell.
November 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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In case you were curious, that's 2525 W. Devon, Oldefest & Williams, 1928-29.
November 10, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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🙏
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM