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The Desecration of Pleasant Home
On Friday Steve Kelley, a longtime volunteer for the Pleasant Home Foundation Restoration Committee and member of its Board of Trustees, informed theā€¦
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Women's History Month: Jean Wehrheim
Did you know that today only 23.3% of all American-based architects are women? Considering March is Womenā€™s History Month when we commemorate the vitalā€¦
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The Destruction of Villa Hortensia
Iā€™m fully aware this substack is supposed to be about the architecture of Chicagoland. But if there is such a thing as a Chicago ā€œNorth,ā€ then it wouldā€¦
The MacArthur Family and Frank Lloyd Wright
It was exactly a year ago that I wrote a post about ā€œdemolition by neglectā€ by the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust. I didnā€™t expect my writing to get muchā€¦
Demolitions of 2022
Itā€™s that time of year again when we look back at the buildings we lost in 2022. Just like my 2021 post, Chicago continues to destroy its richā€¦
Edward Dart's Chicago Theological Seminary Faculty Quadrangle
2022 marked the 100th anniversary of architect Edward ā€œNedā€ Dartā€™s birth. Earlier this year I wrote about some of Dartā€™s architectural projects like theā€¦
Valley View Farm, Ernest Hemingway, and SOM
For the people who read this Substack, you might not know Iā€™ve freelanced for Chicago magazine for the last year and a half writing up real estateā€¦
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