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"Well, there's a logic to it. If you can't build one as good as the one you're tearing down...There's plenty of chances to do modern architecture or post mortem architecture.

I think it’s time for an old house thread, Halloween-themed of course. Let’s start with the Alexander B. Moore House (1864) in Geneva. Its belvedere cupola was designed with 16

It’s time for my annual look back at the many photo ceramic portraits found at Chicagoland cemeteries. There are so many because of Oak Park's J.A. Dedouch Company, which began

Need an architectural distraction so here are some homes in Oak Park. The Frank E. Long House (1924) is a cottage-style design w/a wavy thatched roof, made out of steamed

I’m gonna call this next architectural boredom thread “houses touching houses,” you know, row houses and the like. Here are some examples in Chicago’s Gold Coast. There are more of

If there’s a theme to this next architectural boredom thread it’s “modernist homes built between the 1920s-60s that I really like.” Let’s get started with Bruce Goff’s Paul Colmorgan House