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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 4h

Me too! No recent sale though, so Zillow snooping not possible.

Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 4h

Window so good I had to look it up. Built for the Central States Life Insurance Co. in 1921. Color pic from site for current incarnation, an event venue.
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Black-and-white pic of Mission two-story, stucco very church-looking building. One-story recessed sections on sides, more stuff at the back, including a bell tower! On main section a large divided circular window, with surround that dips in with wavy lines in four symmetrical places. Over-the-top decoration above the front door. Text identifies as Central States Life Insurance Co. Building. St., Louis, Mo. T.P. Barnett & Co., Architects. From page of the American Architect, July 18, 1923.

Color photo of a window below an arch. Window is beautiful, circular but with zizgags at the corners. Colored glass, not entirely discernible, in center of divided lights.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 7h

I'd love to see

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 7h

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Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social · 1d

The Ling Long Chinese Museum in Chicago opened prior to the 1934 World's Fair hoping to draw visitors and help erase the popular view that US Chinatowns were "immoral and dangerous."

The museum housed a large altar in the rear of the main arcade to enshrine an icon of Guanyin. 🧵
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The image depicts a colorful interior scene from the Ling Long Chinese Museum, specifically the so-called “Temple of Kung Yin” [sic]. It showcases a seated image of Guanyin on a lotus pedestal. The image is centrally positioned and surrounded by intricate ornamental pillars and panels featuring decorative patterns and red and yellow Chinese text. Two lion statues flank the pedestal, contributing to the symmetrical composition. The background includes a richly decorated wall with intricate artwork. The floor consists of multicolored tiles, adding texture to the scene.
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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 8h

No regrets

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 9h

Unfortunately attempts to monetize our shared building appreciation enthusiasm have failed. If you know anyone interested in 1000 boxes of Chicago 1920s Architects trading cards, hit me up.

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 12h

Get you a friend like @tudoraf.bsky.social, who will take you to a spot where you can both touch grass & photograph glass

Bernard Horwich JCC (rear)
Architect: Epstein & Sons, 1960

Color photo of the back of a two story light tan brick box of a building with a flat roof, taken from across a grassy field. The facade is enlivened by a large expanse of vertically oriented glass block in different colors.

Color close-up of the expanse of glass block in the previous photo reveals that the glass is not just in different colors, but also different sizes and textures.

An even closer color photo of the glass blocks, detailing the different sizes, orientations, textures and colors of the glass block.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 1d

Bungalorte-cochère

Color photo, at an awkward angle, of a 1920s Chicago brick bungalow in yellow (maybe call it buff) brick with mostly red tile roof and polygonal bay. Roof extends over side entrance and driveway to brick pillars on other side, making a porte-cochère for car.

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Joseph Miscimarra 🇺🇸 @jmisci.bsky.social · 2d

More of these buildings EVERYWHERE please.

A multifamily building with 3 stories, pretty brick, and a tree lined street

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Larry Shure @ultralocal1.bsky.social · 1d

Tiny watercolor paintings of Tudor revival-style homes in Chicago.

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Lady Topham Catt @ladytophamcatt.bsky.social · 1d

1/2 I have never once been to Rosehill Cemetery & found the May Chapel open & empty. Until yesterday.

Short thread with some interior details in the light of day.

Horatio N May Memorial Chapel
Architect: Joseph Lyman Silsbee, 1899

Color photo of the interior of a Gothic chapel, taken from the entrance and facing the front. Dark wooden pews line either side of an aisle covered in a runner with red as the dominant color. Light shines in through stained glass windows, illuminating a partially visible wooden vaulted ceiling.

Color photo looking straight up at a wooden vaulted ceiling. A light fixture hangs from the junction of four sections. On either side of two of these sections can be glimpsed the pointed arches of stained glass windows.

Color photo of a portion of a wall in the chapel. Dark wooden pews stretch to the walls, which are covered in green and tan tile, with a green and tan frieze of Gothic tracery ornamenting the top. Two sets of stained glass windows in yellow, white and red sit on either side of a dark wooden truss; the transom of the window to the far right is open.

Color photo taken from inside the chapel, facing the doors leading outside. Bright sunlight out side obscures some details, but the glorious stained glass transoms above the doors are visible, as is a glimpse of the ornate mosaic ceiling just inside.

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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 1d

Former police station, Leiden; designed in the style of the Amsterdam School by Jan Neisingh in 1927.

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Isaac Rowlett @isaacrowlett.bsky.social · 4d

Milwaukee, Wisconsin — 2025

Named for the abolitionist activist, newspaper editor and civil war hero Rufus King, this Art Moderne gem on Milwaukee’s North Side is consistently rated one of the best public high schools in Wisconsin.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 4d

Low-key castle sibling, both finished in 1927
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Every Lot Chicago @everylotchicago.bsky.social · 4d

1441 North Laramie Avenue

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 4d

Heading toward the Phoenix Building, former home of the local Altgeld club

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Adam Selzer @adamchicago.bsky.social · 4d

The frogs have landed in Chicago!

Protestor in a frog suit and an anti-Ice sign with what I believe to be a Pokémon character on a street corner in Rogers Park.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 4d

I thank you for entrusting me with this sacred duty

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 4d

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 4d

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 4d

Happy radiator season, to all who celebrate
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Color photo of a radiator painted red with white designs of spirals and flames. Caption reads Perfection Ornamental pattern of American Radiators. Decorated in strongly contrasting colors for Billiard Room, Theatre Lobby, Hallway or the like, where forceful effects are desired.

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Chicago Tudor Revival AF @tudoraf.bsky.social · 4d

The entrance to the apartment building on Damen you mention by the same architect. Dude knew his way around terra cotta.

Color photo of ornate terra cotta, in shades of tan and green, above the front door to an apartment building. Two pairs of plain pilasters under a plain cornice but filled in and surrounded by a profusion of shields, curlicues and stylized vegetation. Decoration extends up to coved pyramid finial between two second-story windows.

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Lee Bey @leebey1.bsky.social · 4d

Today's architecture column. That fantastic Moorish Revival building at 79th and Stony? Its longtime owner, Haven of Rest Missionary Baptist Church, is making moves to get the structure landmarked and restored.

South Side church seeks to reawaken Stony Island's architectural slice of ancient Persia

The Haven of Rest Missionary Baptist Church congregation is making plans to restore and landmark its Mideast Revival fellowship hall, a structure that was built in 1928 as a swanky restaurant.

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Laur-eeeeee😱 (spooky scream) @laurie-merrell.bsky.social · 5d

Chicago forever problems for now

A photo of the Chicago skyline in the distance beyond some open dim blue water. The sky above is pastel blue with a band of orange in the lower left and clouds lit up with orange blush in the upper right

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 5d

Neighborhood scene

A photo of a wide two story 1880s red brick rowhouse with a symmetrical facade arranged around a central front door which is flanked by two different address numbers, suggesting multiple dwelling units inside. The upper floor of the building is covered in a tall mansard roof, with a central section above the front door consisting of a pitched section with two narrow windows beneath it and two additional banks of windows on either side. On either side of a front entry sidewalk, the property is marked by a set of shoulder-height hedges that were perhaps once carefully tended, retaining a vaguely rectangular shape, but which are currently overgrown.

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