stonework details

[15_the_circle]

[OT from cottage renovations]

the Gilded Age produced such lovely ornamental stonework.  these were all seen from an El train on the Loop. 

(click through these thumbnails for higher resolution images)

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Chicago Public Library

not exactly what you'd call an undisclosed location ...
if librarymary were around this would have been for her. 

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Fisher Building

some of these will end up in crossposts to doorwindowwall or itsinthedetails but that will have to wait; it's late (this entry is backdated) and I'm tired. 

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Comments

Chicago Public Library

[(Anonymous)]

George:

Well, it may look like Gilded Age ornamentation, but the library is of recent construction (mid 1990s, IIRC). A friend's wife worked there as a librarian until her retirement last year.

Now the Fisher Building is a true gem. I've actually been in it. It's where I got the drive-away car I brought to Palm Springs back in 1974.

And you missed the Monadnock Building, the tallest bearing-wall buiding in America at (IIRC) 18 stories.

Chicago is still full of architectural landmarks, despite a lot of demolition activity in the last 30 years.

[15-the-circle.livejournal.com]

serves me right for writing a post late at night.  the library building is clearly of this age though its ornamentation does pay a certain amount of respectful homage to some of the older ones around it.  I should have put that sentence below the break rather than at the beginning, oh well. 

the Fisher Bldg. caught my attention while going past it on an orange train from Midway Field; I actually doubled back in order to take that series before continuing on another train to effect the transfer to the Blue Line out to O'Hare Field.  the library was a target-of-opportunity on the S side of the El structure, I led with that image because of the signage.  more Fisher Building images to follow shortly. 

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my way of dealing with such an overwhelming volume of subject matter seems to be that of finding one or two things to look at in detail rather than attempting to cover the entirety of what's available. 

well done

[(Anonymous)]

i am gonna show this to my friend, bro