designslinger: Category Archive for History

Lakeside Press Moves On

The Telephone Book Goes to Press

The Commodore & Company

Majestic

Chicago's Manhattan

Wrigley Re-deux

The Salvation Army Trains in a Tilt House

Carbide and Carbon

Colony of Exclusivity

The Cobden

Mutually Insured

Elegance on Belden

Flat Living at Hotel St. Benedict

Science and Industry

The Brewster Apartments

The Rookery

Holiday Hiatus # 1

This Old Chicago House

Halsted's Houses

The Reliance Building

Relics of Retail

Railroad Time

Fish for Mr. Fisher

Simply Appealing

Venetian Light

Theology Row

University Club

Fine Arts Building

Crilly's Court

Union Square

A Private Fortress

A Dairy, A Candy Bar, and A Greeting Card

After the Fire

Grime

Paris in Chicago

The Chicago Fire's Other O'Leary

Unity Temple Turns 100

Bloomingdale's at Home in Medinah Temple

Yom Kippur

Culturally Centered

High Holy Days

Steeples on the Landscape

Division Street

Putting the Prairie in the Park

My Return to Chicago's Humboldt Park

A Monumental Labor Day

Quincy Street Elevated

Deutschen im Chicago

Cruising Down the Chicago River

Cruisin' Down the River

Elevated Architecture

A Bohemian Enclave of Hispanic Proportions

Musical Delights

From Mies to Mies; A Walk Along Lakeview Avenue, The Next Segment

Wicker Park, Chicago's Other Gold Coast

The Great Cover-Up on Sheridan Road

Another Elevated View

A Grand Monument on Lincoln Park

Chicago's Gap

An Elevated View

From Mies to Mies; A Walk Along Lakeview Avenue

Fort Dearborn Set in Concrete

Architectural Salvage

They Once Showed Movies Here Too

Bastille Day

They Once Showed a Movie Here

Ogden: The Story of a School, a House, and a Trust

Mrs. Palmer's Paintings

They Just Don't Build 'Em Like This Anymore - Pt. II

Chicago's Window to the World

Just Around the Corner

Pride

Walter Gropius' Chicago

The Land of Douglas

The Streets Where We Live

Nothing's Set In Stone

A Little Plan

Delivery Systems

My Broadway

The Boulevard of the Stars

Liberty's Crowning Moment

Chicago, Water and Views

Medills, McCormicks and a Mansion

Things Change and Stay the Same

Having A Ball in Chicago

Swine Flu and Epidemical Imagery

Rome Celebrates Its 2,762nd Birthday

Folksy Victoriana

It's National Architecture Week

Loving Paris in the Springtime

Lions Guarding the Gate

A House to Hang Your Shingle On

A Revolving Story

Marion Mahony Griffin

This Anne Isn't the Queen

The Unsung Heroine

Victorian in the Second Empire

Preserving the Memory

Hollywood Landscapes

Gothic Architecture's Victorian Revival