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Architecture and History of Chicagoland

Rachel Freundt

Sharing photos and histories of Chicagoland's built environment.

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Gill, Silsbee, and Chicago Part 1

Portrait of Irving J. Gill. (San Diego History Center)

It’s been almost a decade since I wrote a three-part piece on the James Charnley House for Chicago Patterns (you can read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 on the Internet Archive). At the ti...

16 days ago
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The Robert Silhan House

My photo of the Robert Silhan House, an Art Moderne design built in the 1930s and located in Berwyn, Illinois.

Chicago Magazine’s website recently disappeared and is now officially under the umbrella of the Chicago Tribune. Many of the art...

a month ago
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Some Thoughts On Richard Nickel and Historic Preservation

Chicago Daily News, 1971.

Yesterday marked the 54th anniversary of the day when historic preservationist and photographer Richard Nickel went missing inside the partly demolished Chicago Stock Exchange designed by Adler & Sullivan. He had...

5 months ago
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Bruce Goff: Material Worlds

My 2022 photo versus a historic photo taken by Eliot Elisofon/Life Magazine of the Ruth Van Sickle Ford House located at 404 S. Edgelawn Drive in Aurora, IL.

Unlike other architects, Bruce Goff did not have a signature style, which seems...

6 months ago
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Louis Sullivan's Influence on the Winslow House

Screenshot of my original article on Curbed Chicago.

Did you know that nearly 40% of webpages that existed over a decade ago are no longer accessible? And that 54% of the pages on the crowd-sourced encyclopedia (and possibly one of our las...

7 months ago
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