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John Burns House (1938)

nobody@flickr.com (chicagogeek) — Thu, 16 May 2013 21:06:32 -0700

1708 Lake Avenue
Wilmette, Illinois
Architect: R. W. Stott

All the characteristics of the art moderne style: flat roof with parapet, horizontal and vertical bands recessed in painted black brick, windows wrapped around the corners, glass blocks, and projecting stainless steel overhangs. Wilmette is home to another significant art moderne house, this one designed by architect Andrew Rebori.

Gauler Twin Houses (1908)

nobody@flickr.com (chicagogeek) — Thu, 16 May 2013 20:51:52 -0700

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NRHP ##77000475
5917 and 5921 N. Magnolia Ave.
Chicago, IL
Architect: Walter Burley Griffin

Designated a Chicago Landmark in 2000, this pair of wood-and-stucco residences were built as speculative housing for butcher John Gauler. Because they were an investment, Gauler immediately sold them upon completion. The contractor was A. W. Dickenson, who would make his own home nearby in the area at 1308 W. Thorndale. One of the first commissions Griffin had after beginning his own firm in 1906, the houses share a front entrance walkway and their floor plans are mirror images of one another.

View from Terzo Piano

nobody@flickr.com (chicagogeek) — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:57:17 -0700

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Art Institute of Chicago

Casino Club (1928)

nobody@flickr.com (chicagogeek) — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:05:24 -0700

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195 East Delaware
Chicago, IL
Architect: Walter Frazier

The most socially prestigious members-only club in Chicago is the Casino, a somewhat obscure and peculiar looking one-story, green-and-black Art Deco building tucked behind the Hancock. Originally located a few blocks away, when the Casino opened in 1914, "There were present eleven Blairs, eleven McCormicks, seven Cudahys, six Armours, five Carpenters, five Palmers..." The land was leased from the Palmer family. Architects Arthur Heun and Ernest Walker created a pale pink stucco structure with Spanish Italianate influences, but the building burned down in 1927. Considering the current prices of real estate in the area, it is surprising a monstrous high-rise does not sit here, but that's the point. In the 1960s, when the Hancock people wrote to the longtime Casino president, Mrs. John Winterbotham, asking to buy the club property so they could have not one but two buildings for their project, she tossed the letter into a desk drawer, where it was found after her death years later. She had never replied.

Former Moses Montefiore Temple (1902-2013)

nobody@flickr.com (chicagogeek) — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:51:23 -0700

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1042 N. Damen Ave.
Chicago, IL

I had no idea this building was being demolished until I noticed some pics in GXM's photostream. There is another good demo pic here. A bit of history: Back when Damen was called Robey Street, the Moses Montefiore congregation, an institution organized in 1875, dedicated their new temple in 1902. They were located at this address until 1923. At some point, the Ukrainian Baptist Church, founded in 1915 by Joseph Skula, took over the location. The church remained here until the end of 1985, when it bought a building in Berwyn at 6751 Riverside Drive. It was recently occupied by Primera Iglesia Bautista, a fundamentalist church.

Emerson Ingalls Rowhouses (1892)

nobody@flickr.com (chicagogeek) — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:20:51 -0800

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200-206 Forest Ave
Oak Park, IL
Architect: William J. Van Keuren

These Queen Anne style rowhouses were designed by Van Keuren, an Oak Parker who was a successful developer and designer from the mid-1880s until his death. He lived in one of his own designs on Clinton. Some of his other buildings in Oak Park include the brick commercial block that now houses Oak Park Jewelers at South and Marion, the F.G. Baker House on Euclid and the H.B. Noyes House on Wisconsin.

Peter Beachy House (1906)

nobody@flickr.com (chicagogeek) — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:11:19 -0800

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NRHP #73000699
238 Forest Avenue
Oak Park, IL
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright

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Chicago Bee Building (1929)

nobody@flickr.com (chicagogeek) — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:12:27 -0800

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NRHP #86001090
3647-55 S. State Street
Chicago, IL
Architect: Z. Erol Smith

From Chicago Landmarks Website: "This Art Deco-style building was constructed as the headquarters for the Chicago Bee newspaper, which was founded by noted African-American entrepreneur Anthony Overton. It originally featured upper-floor apartments and, during the 1930's, housed the offices of the Douglass National Bank and the Overton Hygienic Company, a nationally known cosmetics firm. The newspaper went out of business in the 1940s, although Overton Hygienic continued until the early 1980s. In the mid-1990's, the building was adapted for reuse as a branch of the Chicago Public Library. It is one of nine structures in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville Historic District."

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Chicago Bee Building (1929)

nobody@flickr.com (chicagogeek) — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:08:32 -0800

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Chicago Bee Building (1929)

nobody@flickr.com (chicagogeek) — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:53:27 -0800

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Chicago Bee Building (1929)

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Overton Hygienic Building (1922)

nobody@flickr.com (chicagogeek) — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:32:23 -0800

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NRHP #86001091
3619-27 S. State Street
Chicago, IL
Architect: Z. Erol Smith

From the Chicago Landmarks Website: "Built by noted entrepreneur Anthony Overton as the headquarters for the Overton Hygienic Company, which was one of the nation's foremost producers of African-American cosmetics. This four-story structure also housed several of Overton's other business ventures, including the Victory Life Insurance Company and Douglass National Bank, the first nationally chartered, African-American-owned bank. Offices on the second floor were rented to area physicians, lawyers, music producers, and architects. It is one of nine structures in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville Historic District."

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Overton Hygienic Building (1922)

nobody@flickr.com (chicagogeek) — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:24:54 -0800

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Midcentury Modern

nobody@flickr.com (chicagogeek) — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:55:42 -0800

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The Village of Riverwoods was established on the banks of the Des Plaines River in 1949 by steel magnate Edward L. Ryerson. Designed to be “set in the woods without taking the trees out,” this Lake County community is home to one of Chicagoland’s largest concentrations of mid-century residential architecture. Over 40 homes were designed by architect Edward Humrich. He said that “a house should be like an outcropping of the land, a rock formation, to belong to the site.” His one-story “prairie modernist” designs blend harmoniously into their surroundings, but unfortunately half a dozen have been torn down for “McMansions” forever altering the landscape and character of the village.

Joyce Marcus House (1978)

nobody@flickr.com (chicagogeek) — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:35:18 -0800

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7 Timberline Lane
Riverwoods, IL
Architect: Arthur Dennis Stevens

This house was recently on the market for $1.9 million by its original owner who used it as her "personal sanctuary." Designed by one of Frank Lloyd Wright's youngest apprentices, who worked with the famed architect between 1948-1953, the all-glass pagoda house was built as a series of five pods, with a total of 5,700 square feet of interior living space and an additional 8,500 square feet of exterior space in the form of patios, decks and balconies. It borders the 561-acre Ryerson Woods, which helps carry the outside in and makes for some dramatic views.

Here's an amazing picture of the backyard: ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2012/09/07/9879986/7_Timberline_Ln_...

And some interior pictures here: chicago.curbed.com/archives/2011/06/30/pagodastyle-home-b...

Interesting article about the architect and the house: chicagoagentmagazine.com/working-under-wright/

It's hard to get decent pictures of this place without trespassing, but I wonder if you can get better shots during the winter? Maybe I'll try soon.

Emanuel Feingold House (1958)

nobody@flickr.com (chicagogeek) — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:14:13 -0800

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1120 Ridgewood Drive
Highland Park, IL
Architect: Arthur Dennis Stevens

Designed by one of Frank Lloyd Wright's youngest apprentices, who worked with the famed architect between 1948-1953, this house was built for an interior decorator who was still living in the house when I toured it in the fall of 2009, when I took these crappy photos. Unfortunately the owner died in Dec. 2012. The residence is surrounded by wooded land, so that in summer it’s difficult to see the house from the street. The homeowner carefully chose the position of the house on the lot, wanting to preserve the native landscape, to the point where the house was sited so hardly any trees had to be removed. Over the decades the structure was well-maintained and in impeccable condition. In 2010 the house was made a National Historic Landmark.

Here are some pictures of the interior: www.keithclayton.com/portfolio/featured/

And check out more of the architect's work here:
www.idahostatesman.com/2012/02/17/1997943/more-designs-fr...

Emanuel Feingold House (1958)

nobody@flickr.com (chicagogeek) — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:14:12 -0800

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Emanuel Feingold House (1958)

nobody@flickr.com (chicagogeek) — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:14:13 -0800

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Emanuel Feingold House (1958)

nobody@flickr.com (chicagogeek) — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:14:11 -0800

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Emanuel Feingold House (1958)

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