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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 8h

When in Holland, MI, you best step those freaking gables

Color photo of a gorgeous 3-story commercial building in 1920s Dutch Revival style, dichromatic red brick and sand-colored stone. Tiles on spandrels between second and third floor windows. Stepped gable but with curls on each step. Red tile roof peeking out on sides.

Color photo of a 1980s Dutch Revival store building in red brick, on landscaped grounds. Two stories with second story under tall side gable roof. Pair of cross-gables are stepped. On ground floor shutters painted green and orange.

Color photo of a Dutch Revival mansion in red brick. Most forward sections are bay on left, with stepped gable and entrance section, toward center, also with stepped gable.

Color photo of the top of one bay of a more recent hotel. Above balconies are a round window and a stepped gable, red brick with sand-colored stucco? not sure what stuff under the steps. Top of gable rounded.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In beautiful southwestern Michigan, a person is judged righteous if they can walk barefoot to the end of the south pier at Saugatuck Harbor and back and remain untouched by guano

Color photo of a concrete pier extending into Lake Michigan. A red and white beacon is at the end of the pier. A green and white beacon is visible on a little strip on the far right. Concrete is splotched with seabird guano.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I made a map showing the location of extant electrical substations designed by Hermann von Holst (plus three that have been demolished since I started this survey. Others may have been demolished that I don't know about.) www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...

Former electrical substation at 4401 N. Clifton, Chicago. It is clad in varying shades of red-orange brick. Three dramatic recessed arches decorated with a geometric tile design dominate this side of the building.

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Certified Illinois Expert @mrillinois.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Egyptian Theatre in the ancient kingdom of DeKalb

A ornately decorated Egyptian revivalist movie theatre built in 1928/9.

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dmercer.bsky.social @dmercer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

5500 block of S. Komensky, Chicago. Probably built by Oak Park contractor Angelo Esposito in the late 1950s. He has several other similar buildings in Oak Park, River Forest, and elsewhere, including the monkey buildings mentioned in the article from 1956.

Section of the facade of a mid-century modern two-flat. It is clad in red brick, tan Roman brick, and multi-colored faux stone around the entrance on the left. The outside door is aluminum with panels of orange, turquoise, and green glass and there are two clear glass blocks to the right of the door. Above the slightly slanted porch roof is a large stone or concrete wall that contains a bas relief of the god Mercury (I think), running to the left with the sun setting in the background.

Section of the facade of another mid-century modern two-flat. It is clad in red brick, red Roman brick, and multi-colored faux stone around the entrance on the left. The door is on the left and is protected by a slanted brick wall with three glass blocks in it on the far left and a tilted flat roof above. Above the porch roof is a large stone or concrete wall that contains a bas relief of a butterfly with the sun setting in the background.

Section of the facade of a third mid-century modern two-flat. It is clad in cream brick, red Roman brick, and multi-colored faux stone around the entrance on the right. Above the slightly slanted porch roof is a large stone or concrete wall that contains a bas relief of a naked guy playing a flute with the sun shining in the background.

1956 article about three buildings in River Forest, Illinois, designed by Angelo Esposito, who also designed the three previous buildings. The three in River Forest have bas reliefs of monkeys depicting see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil. All have the sun setting in the background.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I brake for mosaic tiles. Infinity Arts Academy, formerly Gordon Tech High School.

Color photo of entrance to a former parochial school. It's midcentury modern, warm bricks and big windows. Above windows is big section of green and white mosaic tiles. Front doors under overhang held up by brick pier. Simple cross on support extends above roofline. Sidewalk curves toward entrance.

Closer-up of big section of mosaic tiles in previous pic. A neat non-pattern of shades of green, white, and gray, with a little pink/tan for fun.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Same layout, but no snazzy blocks, at 1849-59 W. 34th St., ca. 1962

Streetview of two midcentury two-flats in yellow brick, each with slanted roof over wide porch. Glass blocks next to front door. Swoopy section of stone (left building) and red Roman brick (right building) around basement windows starts past the left wall of each building and ends into a mini-wall in front of the porch, slanting down slightly as it goes and ending in rounded corner.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Another good one on this stretch bsky.app/profile/tudo...

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Tucker @tjchc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Love seeing all the post war delights north of foster on the way to Devon ave 😍🥰

Early 70's home with lower level garage, aqua glass block, teal stone accents below a bay window. It's got it all I'd love to join a bowling league and live here

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There are some styles that have eclectic in the name (Spanish Eclectic, the malign French Eclectic). If we're honest, Tudor Is probably English Eclectic. But I've also seen Eclecticism as a general term for historical revival styles.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No, they count! And those are great! All vegetation and receptacles work. Well, almost all receptacles ... bsky.app/profile/tudo...

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Vegetation in a receptacle no. 43, Coyle & Washtenaw

Color photo of the design of a basket of fruit in a recessed lunette. Basket has diamond pattern in weave and is wide and flared at the top. Fruits visible include apples, grapes, and that carnivorous plant-looking fruit that may supposed to be a pomegranate.

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Details (former On Leong Merchants Association Building edition) Architects: Michaelsen & Rognstad, 1928

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Laurie! Live! @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

guardians of Morse Ave

A photo of a mid rise brown brick building with white terra cotta ornamentation lit up by the morning sun. At the top of the building, there are two rows of dozens of very evenly spaced pigeons perched on the terra cotta. They almost look like little gargoyles except they don't quite span the entire width of the building

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Hyde Park Trish @pmorse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A look at how the first church in Chicago wandered into Woodlawn and a pitch to visit it and the artists who make it a home--plus the endangered United Church and the Bank Building--during Open House Chicago next week. patriciamorse.substack.com/p/1st-presby...

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1st Presbyterian Church

And other Open House Chicago stops

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

But wait there's more! Breeze block and glazed bricks too bsky.app/profile/tudo...

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

YEEEEEESSSS, Shadowal blocks on the stairwell of 4124 N. California, ca. 1959

Color photo of a metal internal stairwell in an open corridor apartment building, taken at night. The wall along the stairwell is a bold pattern of large connected hexagons.

Color detail from wall in first pic. Gray-brown rectangular blocks with a trapezoid relief, laid to make stacks of hexagons.

Black and white ad for Shadowal by Utah Concrete Pipe Co.
Copy reads:
Shadowal THE CONCRETE MASONRY WITH 1,000 FACES. Recesses in the face of each Shadowal unit can be arranged in an almost limitless number of dramatic sculptured patterns. The true versatility of Shadowal concrete masonry is limited on by the imagination and ingenuity of the designer. Pics show blocks making hexagon, trapezoid, and diamond patterns.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Glad the camelsaurus has company 💀

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thank you for your efforts! That bubbly one is fantastic.

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’d like to buy this & dedicate it to the worship of Pittsburgh Corning sculptured glass modules

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I mean, worse fates than sharing a map with Terra Cotta Ave. And Walkup Rd.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Salvaged from the Hotel Baker Garage (1930-1983) in St. Charles, now on the grounds of TC Industries and the American Terra Cotta Museum in Crystal Lake

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

These are great! Top row second over (hourglass shape) is a Pittsburgh Corning Intaglio block, a favorite of another Beverly great, @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thank you! I love the context you put in the ALT text.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

1. Always RT the Guardian Building 2. In the absence of Guardian Building pics, RT the Fisher Building

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Glad you dig my sick pics of the Glick glass brick

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

No stairway pics but a pink bathroom, which by law must be posted

Color photo of a midcentury bathroom with square pink tiles on wall, neat pattern on floor of light green rectangles paired with pink and dark green squares.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's the stairwell but I'd suspect design is unrelated. I'll check Zillow pics and report back if I find anything!

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes, a cloud covered the sun in the middle of my stop 😢 Found architect for one building (probably both) in stacks at HWLC

Scan of old listing:
ARTESIAN AVE N 5449 (3-apt bldg) 26x60 water. Owner, Frank Kurz, 3815 Oakley Ave; contractor, Daniel Frosolone, 5461 N Artesian Ave; mason C Stevens, 1339 S Vine Ave, Park Ridge; plumber, Standard Plbg Co, 6241 W. 26th St, Berwyn; heating, Conrad Bros Htg Co, 2827 W Belmont Ave; architect Frank L Glick. $35,000.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Descending glass blocks at 5449 and 5461 N. Artesian (ca. 1957)

Color photo of a midcentury 2-flat with basement unit in variegated orange brick with pink and tan stone spandrels. A set of Chicago windows on each floor. Entrance/stairwell on right. Wrought iron porch (viny pattern, painted maroon and gold) with slanted roof. Front door has three overlapping windows in diamond shape. Above, in brick along stairwell, three vertical lines of glass blocks, of 5, 7, and 9 blocks, descending.

Color photo of a midcentury 2-flat, with basement unit, in cream brick with earth-tone stone spandrels. Newer casement windows on each floor. Entrance/stairwell on right. Wrought iron porch (viny pattern, painted black). Same iron on balconies, apparently ornamental only. Above entrance, in brick along stairwell, three vertical lines of glass blocks, each line descending two blocks lower. Concrete border to this pattern makes turned-around L, little stops at the bottom of each line.

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LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I do like the mosaic tiles - here are some close ups of the vibrant colours (thanks to the restoration work that took place a few years ago) and their contrast with the grey concrete.

Red and blue mosaic tiles from the Maldon Road roundabout works. They are separated by a vertical line of black mosaic tiles.

A close up of the mosaic tiles on the Crutched Friars piece. The pattern comprises purple and green diamonds. In the centre is a black outlined diamond with an orange square in the middle.

A close up of the BHS grocery basket panel showing the juxtaposition of the vibrant blue tiles and the grey concrete.

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John Morris @john-morris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Golden Nugget Pancake House at the corner of Diversey, Elston, and Western. It's been serving up pancakes and other breakfast dishes since 1966 #printmaking

Wide view of Golden Nugget at Diversey/Western/Elston

A 1984 Chicago Tribune advertisement listed the following locations:

- 4229 W. Diversey
- 3959 W. Diversey
- 2720 N. Clark
- 2406 W. Diversey
- 3234 W. Irving Park
- 1765 W. Lawrence
- 6349 N. Clark
- 4344 N. Lincoln
- 5700 W. Irving Park
- 2971 N. Lincoln
- 3180 N. Broadway
- 3001 N. Central

Of these, four remain open today:

- 3959 W. Diversey Ave
- 1765 W. Lawrence Ave
- 3001 N. Central Ave

...and the one featured in this print at 2406 W. Diversey Ave. This is the only one still open 24 hours.

This print is the same as my usual, hand-pressed linocut relief print with oil ink on 16x20 kitakata paper.

Up close, far left showing the Golden Nugget track letter sign

This Golden Nugget has been here since 1966, the same year the first Golden Nugget opened at 2971 N. Lincoln Ave (now the Golden Apple)

Mid section detail, with advertising bench, someone waiting on the bus, and people enjoying breakfast and coffee

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Arthur Decorations @artdecodude.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Was just driving down the street yesterday in Boyle Heights, as one does, and drove by this lovely #ArtDeco building at 2619 E 8th Street. What a nice surprise !

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Pokey @junkyardcrawler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What's the charge? Photographing architecture? Beautiful Chicago architecture?"

A screenshot of Jack Karlson being arrested by Australian police in the famous "democracy manifest/eating a Chinese meal" clip

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McKie's Disc Jockey Show Lounge @mckiesdjlounge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hyde Park's own. Maybe time for an honorary street sign.

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This year I returned to this Black, modernist enclave in Chatham to write about the late Jolyn Robichaux. After the death of her husband, she took over Baldwin Ice Cream, transforming that venerable, small operation into a major corporation, all the while keeping her community centered.

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Best Historical Home for Community Empowerment: Robichaux Home

Best of Chatham

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Ceiling light fixture at the American Swedish Institute in Minneapolis

View looking up at glass globe with floral shape to design in overall circle

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Similar design, different origins. The mouchette is waaaaaaaaay younger.

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