Calling all architecture geeks...

…both amateur and professional.

This blog is an experiment in public participation in architectural history. I’m inviting readers to contribute what they know of the buildings and projects documented on this site.  Some are rather obscure, and the information is often difficult to locate, especially primary source material.  Please feel free to contribute links, texts, and images (especially vintage photos) related to the works documented on this blog.  And of course, cite your sources!

Sky Harbor hanger, 1929        photo courtesy Northbrook Historical Society

The following is a partial list of buildings and projects—reflective of the time period between 1918 and 1948—that I hope to document in upcoming postings. Some of these works are fairly well known. Others not so much.  But this will be the first time that all will be documented in one place, allowing the works to be viewed collectively by a public audience.

Pennsylvania Railroad Freight Terminal, Price + McLanahan,1918

Bertram Goodhue’s Tribune Tower Entry, 1922

National Life Insurance Building, Frank Lloyd Wright, 1924

Roanoke Tower, Andrew Rebori with Holabird + Roche, 1925

333 N. Michigan Avenue, Holabird + Root, 1928

Sky Harbor Airport, Allen + Webster, 1929

Daily News Building, Holabird + Root, 1929

Adler Planetarium, Ernst A. Grunsfeld, 1930

Chicago Board of Trade, Holabird + Root, 1930

Carbide and Carbon, Burnham Bros., 1930

Merchandise Mart, GAPW, 1930

A.O. Smith Research, Holabird + Root,1930

Astor Street Apartment Buildings, Philip B. Maher, 1931-1932

Chrysler Exposition Building, Holabird + Root, 1933

House of Tomorrow, Keck + Keck, 1933

Italian Pavilion, Aldaberto Libera, 1933

General Exhibits Group, 1933

Crystal House, Keck + Keck, 1934

Field Building, GAPW, 1934

Fisher Apartments, Andrew Rebori,1937

Gottschalk-Keck Apartments, Keck + Keck,1937

Campana Factory, Frank D. Chase with Childs + Smith, 1938

Clark-Maple Gas Station, Bertrand Goldberg,1938

North Pole Ice Cream, Bertrand Goldberg, 1938

Madonna della Strada, Andrew Rebori, 1939

IIT campus, Mies Van der Rohe, 1940s

The above list is a work in progress—it’s likely to change over time.  Stay tuned for the first posting on an actual building: Will Price’s Pennsylvania Railroad Freight Terminal of 1918.  This one was a shocker to me on many levels, but primarily because it remains so obscure today.