Chicago Tudor Revival AF

2024 streetview of 416 W. Erie, three story brick building with a big chunk of glass block and 2.5 story brick columns

1929 building permit

visible on the left, 1978 C. William Brubaker photo

black and white 1970s photo looking sooty as hell

was curious about this little prairie deco industrial building at 416 W. erie that almost gives an expressionist vibe

1929, Jens J. Jensen

IIRC, top story added in late 40s

Historical marker erected on a concrete pillar on a sidewalk. Behind the marker is an iron fence and a large Queen Anne-style home designed by George W. Maher and built for Charles Scales in 1894. The marker reads: Chicago Landmark Hutchinson Street District This district contains a number of houses designed by George Maher, an architect who was influenced by the Prairie school. The mixture of Prairie and historical revival styles here provides a perspective on the Changes that took place in residential architecture between 1890 and 1920, and the way those changes were reflected in Maher's work. Designated a Chicago Landmark on August 31, 1977 by the City Council of Chicago. Michael A Bilandic, Mayor. Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks

Closeup of a lion statue wearing large yellow sunglasses in front of a Prairie-style house designed by George Maher at 839 W. Hutchinson St. in Chicago.

Closeup of a Prairie-style green metal window with decorative panes at the bottom and brick surrounding it on either side. On one pane near the top is a black sticker of a small bird. The room inside is painted beige and is completely empty. The house at 817 W. Hutchinson St. in Chicago was designed by George Maher.

Closeup of a decorative, rusted iron gate in front of 803 W. Hutchinson St. in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Green ivy vines cover the archway entrance of the home behind the gate. A statue of a resting lion is on a pillar near the door.

A little architecture adventure in the afternoon, courtesy of George Maher.

Riverside Plaza apartments, designed by architect Ralph Rapson

Rapson-y In Blue (among other colors)

Color photo of a long two-story motel, in red brick, faux stone, and wood or similar. Rooms in two tiers across a parking lot. Walkway bridge over lot entrance, with sign: O-MI MOTEL Clearence 8-4 ft.

Oh me

Permastone and Formstone: Modern Marvels or the Margarine of… Permastone and Formstone have become genericized trademarks for a ubiquitous type of artificial stone seen on buildings across the country, particularly…

You are not alone, but I like the contrast with the red brick here. This piece by @blaservations.bsky.social helped me to understand and appreciate Permastone.
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Color photo of a raised two-story red-brick row-house, with bay for windows on left and door/balcony on right. Brick plain, with gently rounded arch over first-floor windows and flat arch over second-floor windows. Metal awnings, red with white stripes at ends, below transoms on both windows and on second-floor balcony. Permastone in tan and pink around front door and on parapet.

Enjoying the layers on 3357 S. Giles, built around 1886, Permastoned much later.

That facade has been through a lot!

Photo looking out over an undulating field of yellow and purple wildflowers towards a few tall buildings of the Chicago skyline shrouded in heavy smoke in the distance under a pale sky.

Smoky dream city

You got it!

Color photo of a one-story commercial building, wedged between taller building. Limestone or facsimile light grey blocks in broken course. Stone punches through roofline six times, ending in pointy chunky finials. Main entrance is gently pointed compound arch, smaller door on the left. Three sets of store windows. Between the doors/windows and the parapet a design of quatrefoils within diamonds over squares.

Just a little Gothic guy in Rogers Park, ca. 1931

Street View of a two-story Tudor Revival home in brown brick, with cross-gable featuring combination of brown on tan half-timbering and white siding. Steps up to porch. Trees partially obscure view.

Ad titled Don't Overlook This Opportunity. 6 and 7-Room Homes With All Conveniences Including Screens and Electric Refrigeration. Located in the 2600 Block Kensington Avenue. Photo of a handsome row of connected brick houses with varied facade and roof line, featuring half-timbering, apparent slate tile roof.

2633 Kensington Ave., 1927

Beautiful Prairie style stucco home with an open porch, leaded glass windows, and a curved dormer at the front of the hipped roof. Trees and shrubbery cover both sides of the building.

533 N. Grove, Oak Park, Illinois. 1909, E. E. Roberts, architect.

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Seriously nobody touch the original mosaic floor in this 3-bed, 2-bath condo. The Tudor Revival building was designed by Edward Nordlie in 1931. His brother Arthur was a real estate developer while Ed worked as chief plan examiner for the city’s building department.

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an art deco design on the top of a building in Chicago, orange and turquoise with fan designs

art deco designs, chicago

Post Office
Powers, MI

It is an AFSCME union office. Makes sense, since it's surrounded by government and lobbyist buildings.

Tudor-style two-story home of tan brick with half timbering on the second story. There is a steep gable roof that curves up a bit on the right side to make room for an arched passageway underneath it. Two half timbered dormers stick out like ears on either side of the gable peak. The half-timbering consists of off white stucco with brown beams crossing it. A couple of the beams have been replaced and are unpainted. three multi-paned windows are centered on the first floor, below the half timbering. They have brown wooden shutters on each side.

Tudor in Cicero, Illinois

Ha, it doesn't! Just saw this one on a work trip and had to look it up.

Color photo of a four-story (former) apartment building in red/brown brick. Very varied facade with four irregularly spaced bays. Bell shaped roof on the far left, next to half-timbered (tan on cream) cross-gable, with diamond and curved designs. First floor juts out, with castellated parapet.

Scan of old fire insurance map, showing vaguely bone-shaped pink 3-story building at 613, 615, 617 S. 2nd St. Labeled ANN RUTLEDGE APTS.

Wow! Not sure how much stuff is named for Rutledge, but this half-timbered wonder at 615 S. Second St., Springfield, was once called the Ann Rutledge Apartments.

Or flubbing a four-flat

Respect your consistency 🫡

Color pic of bathroom. Bottom 2/3rd of walls are clad in medium-sized square green tiles, with slight variations in color. Black tiles at the edges, including pencil tiles below the top row of green tiles. Newer marble-y floor and sink.

Color photo of BRICK side of apartment building in Flemish bond, alternating red stretcher and dark blue headers. Saturation hyped in photo program.

As you've probably seen, very thorough realtor pics for various units over the years. Lots of renovations but, oooh, this bathroom and this Flemish bond.

Color photo of an eight story brick apartment building with a flat roof, stone accents and two prominent projecting bays with a recessed entrance between them.

Color photo of the recessed entrance to a light-colored building with a stone base. In the center is a wooden door, flanked on either side by leaded diamond pane windows highlighted by Gothic tracery and above this, lovely foliate stone carvings. Between each of these elements is an engaged column. From either side of the walk leading to the entrance are creepy, naked bushes completely lacking leaves in the middle of summer, taking the Gothic fairy tale thing a little far, if you ask me.

Color photo of a light stone building showing three windows, each with an arched transom, making them look lancet-ish. Above the windows can be seen the bottom of a bay, and underneath are Gothic spandrels featuring a shield sitting on a bed of blind tracery. The shields on the two outer spandrels have those bipedal lions that look like they're about to box (lion rampart), and the middle one has three fleurs-de-lis on it. At the top corner of each window is a carved little guy sitting crisscross applesauce since 1928 and from his expression, he's pretty unhappy about it.

Color close-up of part of the facade where a little guy in a crown and robes sits, staring angrily ahead as he writes no doubt unpleasant things in his little stone book.

1/2 Paul Frederick Olsen did a ton of incredible stuff in South Shore, & he did it in a ton of different styles. Here he is trying his hand at a little Gothic Revival in 1927 & knocking it out of the park. I can't help but love a design featuring disgruntled little kings taking notes on passerby.

IIRC, nothing too exciting, typically failure to pay the registration fee. It's fun though to think of disciplinary action for, say, totally bungling a building style.

Scan of a ledger filled out in longhand of names of architects registered in December 1897, with address, approval date, and renewal information. Names include Clarence Hatzfeld, Carl M. Almquist, John Duncan, and Solon Beman.

Cool! I recently learned that you can get old architect registration records through a FOIA request to the Secretary of State. Here's a scan I got, which includes the entry for Solon Beman.

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There’s a kind of nervous energy in the best 2nd Empire that’s impressive but exhausting. Please just calm the fuck down.

Great nogging and bargeboard!

Color photo of a brown variegated brick building with a flat roof and a thicc band of terra cotta up top that is additionally ornamented by finials. Terra cotta also surrounds windows on the first three floors, where decorative lintels abound, and the second the third floors additionally boast two story bands of quoins.

Color close-up of a rather bonkers amount of terra cotta ornamentation at the very top of the building. There are about a million finals, an enormous expanse of small tiles (some plain, and some with a raised rosette) arranged in a checkerboard pattern, pilasters on either side of a pair of windows, and a pediment additionally adorned with a large centered cartouche, plus scrolls and acanthus leaves.

Color detail of ornament surrounding an ornate chimney of variegated brown brick. The chimney is ornamented by twisting columns and quoins on either side, and a small frieze at top featuring some type of foliate designs. On top of THIS are three chonky twisty chimney pots. On either side of the chimney continues the incredible band of terra cotta that is made of alternating plain tiles and raised tiles with rosettes in a checkerboard pattern.

Color close-up of the entrance to the building, which features a large terra cotta pediment ornamented by scrolls and the same tile design seen along the top of the building. Unfortunately, much of this is obscured by a long green canopy that stretches from the door to the sidewalk, offering protection from both the elements and photography. Elsewhere in the photo can be observed ornate lintels and twisting columns along with quoins around the second floor windows.

Theater king John Eberson is best known for atmospheric delights such as the Avalon Regal and the interior of the Aragon Ballroom, but he apparently knew his way around a residential design also. Here he is in 1925, throwing all the terra cotta he could get his hands on at one South Shore building.

a brown and white vintage tile floor in the south shore community center in Chicago, three different patterns

gardens and building at the south shore community center

the plaque at the south shore library branch dedicated by Eugene sawyer

a Tudor style library building, south shore Chicago public library

it's the last day to pick up my book hold at the library and there is something for everybody in south shore 🏵️