(photo by Landmarks Illinois)
"Forgotten" Goldberg: Does Marina City architect's work @ Elgin Mental Health Center have a future?
Sep. 15, 2010
First they came for the architecture? Where the "take back America" crowd lives
Sep. 1, 2010
I had an idle thought this week while watching clips of‚ talk show host Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington D.C.: If a political or social movement stays around long enough, it will‚ sometimes begin to express itself in graphics, language, art, fashion -- -and architecture. If so‚ what might be the architectural vernacular of the "take back America" crowd?
Shuttered South Side church begins trek to a new life in Lake County today
Aug. 31, 2010
(photo by Lee Bey)
Workers will begin deconstructing a long-vacant 92-year-old Chicago Roman Catholic Church today, and will ultimately transport the neo-classical edifice piece-by-piece 50 miles north to Lake County where it will be re-erected as part of a new church that will be built there.
What can you get for $1? How about a historic Glenview home? (but there's a catch)
Aug. 25, 2010
In a bid to save it from demolition, a four-bedroom Glenview home built by a nephew of Chicago planner/visionary Daniel H. Burnham is on the market for $1.
Yes, there is a bit of a catch. More on that in a bit.
The 1890′s Queen Anne home at 8 Park Drive was built by Hugh Burnham, an attorney who was Glenview’s first village president (He also named the town). The home sits in the suburb’s “The Park” area–acreage bought by Burnham as a planned community for fellow members of the Swedenborgian Church of New Jerusalem (the Glenview New Church), according to a current real estate listing on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s website. Daniel Burnham was raised in the same faith.
The house is today owned by the Glenview New Church. It has woodwork, stained glass windows, turrets and more than one fireplace, according to the listing. The home’s exterior has been altered since its construction; it lost a wrap-around front porch years ago.