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Margaret Fosmoe @mfosmoe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Demolishing City Methodist Church in Gary, Indiana, would be a major mistake By Gavin Moulton, a University of Notre Dame doctoral student in history: www.archpaper.com/2026/09/demo...

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rust belt roadtrip @gmoult.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

what if we moved to wheeling and restored these courtyard apartments….

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rust belt roadtrip @gmoult.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

read me in @archpaper.com on why gary shouldn't demolish america's most famous ruin

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rust belt roadtrip @gmoult.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

the palace of versailles croatian hall, versailles, pa (1936)

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rust belt roadtrip @gmoult.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

all these years, and still the most beautiful bus I’ve ever seen

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rust belt roadtrip @gmoult.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

when ade bethune was just 23, she worked with a pro-union priest south of pittsburgh and unemployed steelworkers to design a church for the catholic proletariat during the depression

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rust belt roadtrip @gmoult.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

someone was just telling me about this one

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rust belt roadtrip @gmoult.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

church of the slovak rail car workers joseph molitor, ss. cyril and methodius church, chicago, il (1915)

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rust belt roadtrip @gmoult.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

city of steel som, inland steel building, chicago, il (1956-58)

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rust belt roadtrip @gmoult.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

can you tell there was a sale on green paint? st. stanislaus kostka polish rc church, michigan city, in (1916-26)

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rust belt roadtrip @gmoult.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

my new article on the clairton steelworkers who designed and built a church from scraps as they organized the first steel union in the country

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rust belt roadtrip @gmoult.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

the brick facades of manistee, michigan

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rust belt roadtrip @gmoult.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

who’s your rust belt crush? 👀🏭

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rust belt roadtrip @gmoult.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

peak 80s design from the lake placid olympics

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rust belt roadtrip @gmoult.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

update: the ice chapel at notre dame has stained glass

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rust belt roadtrip @gmoult.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

the most beautiful grave in warsaw jerzy nowosielski, grave of rev. jerzy klinger, orthodox cemetery, warsaw, pl (1978)

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American Catholic Historical Association @achahistory.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Happening now, Gavin Moulton presents his paper "The Slavic Church System: The Architecture and Political Economy of Slavic Churches in Industrial America" at our Eastern European Catholicism in America panel. #ACHA26 #AHA26 @historians.org @aschurchhistory.bsky.social

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rust belt roadtrip @gmoult.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

sgrafitto patterns of warsaw pt. ii

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Former Jackson Storage & Moving Co of La Grange, IL -- you in danger, girl. AGAIN. Thought saved, this building is again up for demo, & this time a reprieve will not be coming. Jackson was rolling in dough by the 20s, & hired warehouse king John Kingsley to modernize this older building in 1924.

Color wide angle shot of a large terra cotta and tan brick building, taken from across the street. The base is of cream, fluted terra cotta with large show window that read things like REMOVALS, PACKING or SHIPPING over them in green capital letters. The center bay is set back and ornamented by a large expanse of cream terra cotta and a truly unique entrance reached by climbing three stairs. Above the building's base, five skinny ribbons of windows and checkerboard brick spandrels shoot upwards, ending in a point near the roofline.

Color photo of the set back entrance to the building. A pointy tripartite entrance ornamented in polychrome terra cotta designs and intricate grillwork is centered between two elongated quatrefoil windows filled with diamond pane glass and outlined in green terra cotta scalloped leaves on a white glazed terra cotta background.

Color detail of polychrome terra cotta ornamenting a building's entrance. In the center is a column featuring green and pink scroll-like elements that are stacked and separated by cream horizontal bands. On either side is a grill, its metal arms criss-crossing to create geometric patterns. A border of light green terra cotta leaves snakes up from the bottom left and continues up and out of the frame.

Color detail of the word SHIPPING in dark green three dimensional capital letters above one of the large, first floor windows and underneath a course of light green, scalloped leaves.

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rust belt roadtrip @gmoult.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

really into these polish folk nouveau patterns

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rust belt roadtrip @gmoult.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

this church goes insanely hard mary queen of poland, lublin, pl (1981-87)

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rust belt roadtrip @gmoult.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

coastal corbusier adolfo de pertis, church of the rosary, capo di sorrento, it (1971-72)

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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Love the Catholic Social Teaching window at St. John’s in Utica, featuring Pope Leo XIII holding Rerum Novarum, which talks about the right of workers to form unions. At the the bottom are workers of various kinds and in the middle are union members and management reaching an accord.