Chicago Tudor Revival AF

A photo of a single story early midcentury brick storefront building next to an elaborate three story mixed use Tudor Revival building with stone cladding on its lower levels giving way to brick and faux half-timbering on the upper levels. The larger building has a stone-capped brick tower riding above its top floor, capped with crenelations.

An early 20th century brick auto repair shop, seen from across a wide street, features an elaborate symmetrical roof line with stone accents an a little half-arch at the center.

A photo of two three story early 20th century mixed use buildings with stores on their bottom floors and apartments above. The building on the left has a curved facade and red brick with stone lintels and pediments, and the one on the right has a ton of terra cotta cladding surrounding its windows and accenting its roofline.

It's possible to stop actively noticing all these elaborately clad buildings, living in a city that's chock full of them, but some days they jump out at me fresh all over again

Some of the group of 28 handsome gambrel-roof cottages built in 1906-1907 for developers A.J. Stone & Co.

Rev. Jesse Jackson to be laid to rest at Oak Woods Cemetery, 'part of the city's unrivaled historic fabric' The 173-year-old cemetery — solemn, historic and picturesque — will be the final resting place of the Rev. Jesse Jackson this week.

Today's column looks at what will be the final resting place of the Rev. Jesse Jackson: 19th Century landscape designer Adolph Strauch's solemn and picturesque Oak Woods Cemetery on the city's South Side.

An indelible image. Kudos!

Color photo of a small, one story storefront with a flat roof and large shop windows on either side of a door. Above this, a large awning advertising Peter Francis Geraci Law.

A wide angle color photo from underneath the awning reveals Art Deco terra cotta tiles above two large shop windows and a recessed entry.

Color close-up of the terra cotta ornamentation underneath the awning. Directly above a partially seen window is a frieze of rose colored terra cotta tiles with horizontal fluting. Above this is a line of ivory Art Deco tiles with volutes curving towards the center of the tile to frame a stylized starburst below and a chevron pattern above. At the very edge of each tile are half triangles that create diamond shapes when placed together. In the space above each of them sits a golden rosette on a bed of rose colored tiles with tiny vertical fluting. To the right and down the side of the storefront is a rectangular gold tile with a stylized sunburst, and underneath it the same rose colored tiles, this time placed so the fluting is vertical.

A color photo of the side of the building. Mostly of common brick, there's a strip of terra cotta right towards the front. At the very top we get gorgeous, rose colored Art Deco fans. A few rows beneath this is centered a rectangular panel with a stylized sunburst in gold. Directly beneath this can be seen just a hint of rose colored vertically fluted terra cotta that continues to the base of the building.

1/2 I was minding my own business when this gold terra cotta glinted in the sun & caught my magpie eye. Turns out we've got a tiny Art Deco storefront in a pretty rose, ivory & gold color palette, & Peter Francis Geraci has chosen to put a gigantic awning over it.

Architect: Edward Nordlie, 1939

Marc Chagall Born Vitebsk (formerly Russian Empire, now Belarus), 1887; died Saint-Paul, France, 1985, America Windows, Blue stained glass windows depicting angels, musicians, trees.

America Windows, by Marc Chagall
Born Vitebsk (formerly Russian Empire, now Belarus), 1887; died Saint-Paul, France, 1985
1977

More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/109439

A photo of the Chicago skyline viewed from the north across a stretch of open blue water. The skyline is silhouetted against a light pastel sunrise sky

A wintry photo of the Chicago River surrounded by the dense downtown cityscape. There's an elevated train crossing a bridge in the foreground

A photo looking along elevated train tracks towards the distant Sears Tower under a bright blue sky

A photo of the Chicago skyline from the south taken from a park full of yellow winter grasses

Happy birthday Chicago!

"Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning."

how many are using Chicago's birthday as a reason to have a political fundraiser

here are 15 cooler things to do instead, in no particular order

1. Count how many municipal devices you see around town on a walk around town

Color photo just after sundown of the entrance to a midcentury white brick building, a cube in front of the main building. Door has a large triangle window askew. Sidelights are textured patterns in shades of blue and green, backlit. The back wheel of your photographer's Schwinn Cutter is visible in the reflection of the storm door.

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Woodlawn Ave. looking north from 65th St

64th St. looking west from Kimbark Ave towards Woodlawn Ave.

Old paintings of the area around Woodlawn Ave. between 64th & 65th. Most of the buildings are now gone, but a few remain. (photos by a friend)

Thank you for spotting me 100 years. 150 will be quite the milestone. Sincerely, M. Zaldokas.

White terra cotta panel on a red brick wall. A shield with two crossed swords under a jeweled crown. Extensive blank scroll on the bottom and several salad's worth of leafy greens filling the rest of the space.

Happy birthday! I believe the traditional gift for this age is rando heraldry.

House with circular staircase up to an attic door.

Pulaski

Fascinating indeed. Thanks for the link!

Corner shot of a church in variegated red brick. Main facade on left dominated by Mission parapets, mirrored in stone/concrete main entrance at corner, under a bell tower. Windows are round or quatrefoil, stained glass in tall trio of windows is central section. Sanctuary continues back along side street on right.

And one block away from the Valencia, Smith designed the current Greater Institutional AME Church, 7800 S. Indiana Ave. (1927-28)

Z. Erol Smith *everywhere* in late 1920s Chicago, including the Chicago Bee building and many a toothsome Tudor and Spanish Revival
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Color photo of a two story-corner/courtyard Spanish Eclectic apartment in yellow brick. Up close is one of end of the courtyard's U. Entrance here has pink terra cotta with a little red tile roof at the top. Work has been done on the parapet, which is now plain and a cream brick. To the right, the courtyard and the other end of the U.

Color photo of same 2-story Spanish Eclectic courtyard apartment building. Courtyard is deep and wide, big enough to fit a large entrance section in the middle, with plenty of room to spare on each side. Main entrance topped with decorative bell tower.

Closer-up of main entrance to courtyard apartment complex in previous pics. Central decorative bell tower under tile roof fringed with an arcaded corbel table. In front of is a concrete gate, likely with bench, featuring a balustrade. As before, different shade in sections of top show work done, likely removing ornament or more corbeling. Mandatory Chatham lawn lamp.

Close up of one entrance to the building in previous pics, framed in pink terra cotta. Wreathed columns rise to a multipart arch, which I'm seeing is called a tented or draped arch. Lunette features a chubby quatrefoil.

Hard to convey the sprawling magnificence of the courtyard at Prairie & E. 78th, originally the Valencia Apartments (1926-27, Z. Erol Smith)

Cleaners: A Chicago-inspired Font — The Chicago Neighborhoods CLEANERS is a font that inspired by the Pride Cleaners sign in Chicago's Chatham neighborhood.

Font 21: CLEANERS is inspired by the Pride Cleaners sign in the Chatham neighborhood in Chicago. It was recently announced that Pride Cleaners would be closing, but hopefully the amazing sign and iconic building will be saved 🤞🤞🤞

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Clearly used the dark side of Force to get a six-pack

Color photo of a detail of a metal frieze featuring an eagle perched in a wreath, its wings stretching out well past the wreath's edge. Eagle has extremely muscular chest and torso.

Me to myself: the looksmaxxing American eagle isn't real; it can't hurt you

The City/County Building:

Always (fine, occasionally) RT Thorne Rooms

black and white print of Minneapolis in an imagined art deco industrial cityscape, multiple shapes of mills and railroads intersecting

"Minneapolis", 1925 lithograph by Ukrainian-American Louis Lozowick, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Chatham is a very special neighborhood, replete with the over-the-top terra cotta beauties that defined the 1920s, but also home to treasures like this cleaners & a slate of other fantastic MCM designs, as I've written about. All of our South Side masterpieces deserve both attention & preservation.

Helsinki cathedral reflected in a wooden door with geometric lions

Decorated entryway with big gilded circle with a light red 23

Gothic amber glass and wood

Art nouveau entryway design like abstracted wings

Doorways of Helsinki

Street View pic of a large two-story Tudor Revival building, entirely faux half-timbered. Central section features deep arched entrance, oriel on second floor, and on third floor cross-gable with V designs around window. Left section also has cross-gable but blank, oriel on second floor. Right section less snazzy.

Sepia photo of same two-story Tudor Revival building in first pic, looking in same basic shape.

Skeet from Ben Panko on 2/4/25: Windsor Farms is going to hit hard

4211 Dover Rd., originally housing the Quarterly Shop, old pic from 1927 (via Library of Virginia). Good call, @btpanko.bsky.social

Color photo of a city alley: trash receptacles, a garage door, common brick, utility pipes. In middle, on a utility pole is a haggard basketball backboard, worn wood with a net made from a milk crate. Slim bits of sky visible on top of pic.

Shamelessly copying @aoife.bsky.social's basketball backboard pics

If you like those, check out the Thymbria. Waiting to get better pics to post but it's at 5001-13 S. King. Beautiful Venetian Gothic.

Color photo of a two-story home clad with smooth limestone blocks. Entrance (on left) has a highly enriched arch above and paneled wood door. Windows on ground floor bay (on right) have surrounds featuring ogee arches, whose points extend to a balcony above. Simpler ornamented arches repeat above bay window and then once asymmetrically above front door. Pyramid roof fronted by newer looking triangle-pointed dormers that go all the way to the front facade. We are in an old fancy neighborhood, home set back from street, with small front yard behind gate and mature tree on parkway in foreground.

Close-up of window surrounds above three bay windows, rising to ogee arches with crocket-like blobs at the tips of the arch. Within each lunette are swirls of leaves in a Gothic style. Above arches is balcony featuring trefoil arches, resembling the silhouettes of gnomes.

The correct number of ogee arches for a residence. 4947 King Dr. (Peabody & Beauley, ca. 1901)

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