All Entries in the "History" Category
Examples of Chicago Architecture Gone, Going and Here To Stay (for now)
Chicago history preservation with it’s architecture is a touchy subject for many. So many significant structures have gone the way of the wrecking ball even before the historical nature of them were fully realized. The Making Chicago Home blog reviews some buildings such as the Farwell Building, 1927, 660-664 N. Michigan Ave., the The [...]
Legendary Architect’s Building Gets Demolished
Known as the ‘Test Cell’ and mostly unknown to, if not all architecture buffs or historians, this little building is undergoing demolition on Chicago’s south side. Designed by Mies van der Rohe (or at least by someone in his architecture firm) somehow, someone with more time than architectural taste, had decided to make the case [...]
Burnham Plan’s 100 Years of Chicago Real Estate
Our Green Metropolis: The Next 100 Years, is an upcoming program Thursday, November 5, 2009 5:00pm to 7:00pm dedicated to Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago and the legacy of the regional green infrastructure it created. At this reception and special program, partners from around the region will announce the next steps for key [...]
Douglas Neighborhood Mansion May Get Landmark Status
Designed by one of Chicago’s most prestigious architects and built for one of the city’s premier construction contractors, the Griffiths-Burroughs House was granted preliminary landmark status today by the Commission on Chicago Landmarks. The 1892-built home has significant architecture and neighborhood history according to Chicago real estate history buffs.
Located at 3806 S. Michigan Avenue in [...]
Chicagoland Unite For The Crosstown Classic!
Today the White Sox head north to Wrigley Field for Chicago’s first of two annual intra-city series. As a two-baseball team town, never more than during these two annual intercity series does it become more apparent of the existence of the massive cultural baseball-divide in Chicago.
I must ask then, what makes our city unique in [...]
