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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 1d

Milwaukee, Wisconsin — 2025

Named for the abolitionist activist, newspaper editor and civil war hero Rufus King, this Art Moderne gem on Milwaukee’s North Side is consistently rated one of the best public high schools in Wisconsin.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 1d

Low-key castle sibling, both finished in 1927
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Every Lot Chicago @everylotchicago.bsky.social · 1d

1441 North Laramie Avenue

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 2d

Heading toward the Phoenix Building, former home of the local Altgeld club

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 2d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 2d

I thank you for entrusting me with this sacred duty

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 2d

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 2d

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 2d

Happy radiator season, to all who celebrate
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Color photo of a radiator painted red with white designs of spirals and flames. Caption reads Perfection Ornamental pattern of American Radiators. Decorated in strongly contrasting colors for Billiard Room, Theatre Lobby, Hallway or the like, where forceful effects are desired.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 2d

The entrance to the apartment building on Damen you mention by the same architect. Dude knew his way around terra cotta.

Color photo of ornate terra cotta, in shades of tan and green, above the front door to an apartment building. Two pairs of plain pilasters under a plain cornice but filled in and surrounded by a profusion of shields, curlicues and stylized vegetation. Decoration extends up to coved pyramid finial between two second-story windows.

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Lee Bey @leebey1.bsky.social · 2d

Today's architecture column. That fantastic Moorish Revival building at 79th and Stony? Its longtime owner, Haven of Rest Missionary Baptist Church, is making moves to get the structure landmarked and restored.

South Side church seeks to reawaken Stony Island's architectural slice of ancient Persia

The Haven of Rest Missionary Baptist Church congregation is making plans to restore and landmark its Mideast Revival fellowship hall, a structure that was built in 1928 as a swanky restaurant.

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Laur-eeeeee😱 (spooky scream) @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago forever problems for now

A photo of the Chicago skyline in the distance beyond some open dim blue water. The sky above is pastel blue with a band of orange in the lower left and clouds lit up with orange blush in the upper right

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 3d

Neighborhood scene

A photo of a wide two story 1880s red brick rowhouse with a symmetrical facade arranged around a central front door which is flanked by two different address numbers, suggesting multiple dwelling units inside. The upper floor of the building is covered in a tall mansard roof, with a central section above the front door consisting of a pitched section with two narrow windows beneath it and two additional banks of windows on either side. On either side of a front entry sidewalk, the property is marked by a set of shoulder-height hedges that were perhaps once carefully tended, retaining a vaguely rectangular shape, but which are currently overgrown.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago tire shops are excellent.

Two-story fram building decorated in black and white stripes with a red, green, and white sign that says Jose's New & Used Tires & Rims.

One-story orange brick building with a stepped parapet wall with an arch in the center. The door is in the center, and above it is a yellow square with a hubcap mounted on it. On either side of the door are two tires, painted yellow attached to the wall below yellow and black signs in English and Spanish.

One-story brick tire shop painted bright orange-red. There is a customer door at the left, topped with a painting of Jesus. Next to that is a large glass block window and on the right is the garage door. There are paintings of tires at various places above the garage door. "4 Brothers Tire Shop, Inc." is painted in black and white at top left.

One-story brick building with a flat roof. The brick is painted dark red, pale yellow, and brown. Pictures of tires, painted in black, white, and yellow, decorated the front. On either side are the words "TIRE SHOP", painted vertically. The address is painted yellow in the center of the building.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 3d

The nudism-modernism connection is ... apparently a thing?
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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 3d

"F. Aschuler" is architect on permit, I believe referring to the firm of Friedman, Alschuler & Sincere

Building permit for 6552 N. Sacramento Ave. Dated Nov. 5, 1992, final report 5/5/53. Owner A. Dobrin, architect F. Aschuler. Contractor: E. Peterson. 1-story residence, 41 x 59 x 8. Cost $19,250.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 3d

Modernist bestie in the neighborhood, 6552 N. Sacramento (1952-53)

Color photo of a 1-story modernist single family home. Slim floor-to-ceiling window on left but rest of facade dominated by section of Roman brick in warm tones. Four sets of rectangular windows above, then brick section continues as wall for patio/entrance area, entered from side. One row of clear glass blocks from this section visible above wall. Flat roof, naturally.

Photo of same 1-story modernist home at an angle. You can see better a short set of steps to front patio/entrance area. Wall of glass blocks along one side.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 4d

Phew! Glad to hear you weren't hurt.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, no! Hope you are okay.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 4d

Ha, no problem! Hope to see you out at OHC this year!

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for recognizing that the gingerbread bargeboard and flared gable weigh against calling this Tudor Revival 👏

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Chicago Film Archives @chicagofilmarchives.org · 4d

On this day in 1991, Chicago's Harold Washington Library Center opened to the public!

This clip was shot about a week later as 16mm B-roll for "Skyline: Chicago," a series on the city's history and urban design that aired on @wttw.bsky.social It's part of CFA's Judith Paine McBrien Collection.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 4d

I love the type. Here is probably my favorite.
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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · Feb 20

I will always fall for a decorative bell tower. 8000 S. Indiana (Kocher & Larson architects, 1927-28)

Color photo of two-story buff brick apartment building. Front facade in four parts, with bays in second and fourth parts, each with combination castellated/Mission parapet. Entrance is in third part topped by a decorative bell bower. Bell tower and false mansard on first part have green ceramic (or like) roof tiles.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 4d

Low-key castle appreciation post

Every Lot Chicago @everylotchicago.bsky.social · 5d

5505 West Crystal Street

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Jeremy Glover @jgrantglover.bsky.social · 5d

All these elements--the gate, the brick, the windows, the door--scream "courtyard building" to me, so this super-slender thing looks very goofy to me.

A slender four-story yellow brick building behind a gate

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K Taylor @onegalstoronto.bsky.social · 6d

Great tiles, marvellous stained glass.
- Roncesvalles Ave, near Fermanagh.

A narrow side entrance to apartments above a storefront. The walls are tiled in small brown and cream square tiles, the walk is tiled in white with a decorative border in red and green. Above the brown, wooden door is a beautiful stained glass transom.

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