Chicago Tudor Revival AF

cpp of a very sunny beautiful day at Lake michigan: my (white lady) left hand holding a petite handful of clear, green, pale blue and brown weathered glass with crystal clear water at the shallow shoreline deepening into a perfect aquamarine further out. There are gentle cirrus clouds blending into a hazy whitish cloudline at the east-looking horizon.

oh also it was just a perfect sunny lakefront day for a #dailylakeglass

(not all regretting having an excuse to return for weekend 2 of McHenry County Conservation District's based Festival of the MFing Sugar Maples)

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From source: Elevated view of pedestrians walking and automobiles and streetcars driving on Halsted Street at 79th Street in the Auburn Gresham community area of Chicago, Illinois. The sign for the Auburn Park Trust and Savings Bank is visible on left and for a cut-rate drug store on the right in the foreground. Marquees for that read Madrid and Capitol are visible on the left in the background. A water tower is visible in the distance.

Halsted Street at 79th Street, Chicago (1926)
Photo: Chicago Daily News

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A nearly full moon is seen brightly in late afternoon above Chicago’s loop, with a crane perched atop a more distant building below, and two vertically parallel skyscrapers rising up beside it

daytime #moon in a blue #chicago skyscraper-framed sky. on my #digicam

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Color photo of entrance to large white brick commercial-looking building. Big gray blocks surround the front door and large transom, framed by Sullivanesque edge. Small gold discs on gray around door and transom and gold Deco font above transom reads THE JEWEL LAUNDRY

Happy bday! Surprisingly on-point recent pic.

Color photo of connected buildings on a city street. In back, a large 2.5 story home clad in strips of rough stone, maybe originally a single family home but with separate entrances suggesting conversion. In front of right side of building a one-story midcentury addition, mostly blue trim and big store windows but with sections of rough stone, echoing building behind it.

Good follow-through on the stone (but not the style) on Monroe St. in Madison.

A grid of nine linoleum patterns arranged in a grid of squares. The patterns contain a wide range of alternating shapes and colors, bright or muted, most symmetrical. Most suggest marble or tile.

Selected patterns from “Linoleum & Felt-Base: Spring Season - 1932”
Sloane-Blabon Corp., New York

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Half timber double dormers rough brick and stone base.

Color photo of Tudor home with herring bone brickwork over stone arched garage.

Color photo of half timbered Tudor home with first floor clad in stone and slate roof.

Color photo of garage of Tudor with elaborate herring bone brickwork, stone entry gate, and dovecote (!) waiting for return of doves with equestrian weather vane.

Lagrange 1920s Tudors. #tudoraf.bluesky

These are them!!! Thanks!

That's exactly what I thought too! But no, it was a realtor's office.

It was built for a realtor right around the time this area became billed as Chatham. It's been a church for way longer though, since 1958 according to a writeup I saw.

Color photo of a terra cotta spandrel showing a dude on horseback (gotta be St. George) poking with a lance a dragon that looks annoyed. Adorbs spurs on the dude's shoes.

For sure! Like those houses crazy far back from King, and this rando dragon slayer.

Color photo of a two-story Mediterranean Revival building. Red brick piers at ends, but most of facade is limestone blocks, arranged in irregular courses. Most attention to second floor, an arched full-size window with a substantial Juliette balcony, flanked by two rectangular Friends of Juliette. Cute mini green tile Mansard roof above. Ground floor crazy for arches, with triple window in center, doors within arched recesses on each side. Framing all this stuff? Wreathed columns of course. Above the window a neat sign: First Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

Oh, that's the stuff. 7941 King Drive, finished in 1928.

All caps sans sarif font with weighted line work in black letters on a light yellow background above square casement windows.

Decorative floral plaster work in light yellow below a decorative faux balcony.

Want to see a cool font?

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.