Historic Architecture, and cool pics of buildings,

[Rooster_Ties]

This is the official Organissimo "Historic-Architecture" thread. There's a ton of cool stuff out there on the web, and in real life too (especially!!!) -- and I'm betting I'm not the only historic architecture buff in this crowd. I'll post some of my favorites in the coming hours and days, but here are a few random ones that I just stumbled on today...

Merchant's Bank of Winona (1911)

Winona, Minnesota

Woodbury County Courthouse (the largest 'Prairie Style' building in the world)

Sioux City, Iowa

Bloom High School, Illinois

Hecht Company warehouse, Washington D.C.

Apartment building, Havana, Cuba

OK, enough for now. I'll post more later.

What are your favorite works of Architecture??? Particularly those that are really unique in some aesthetic way.

Edited July 29, 2003 by Rooster_Ties

[catesta]

The Chrysler Bldg.

[Jim R]

Fantastic thread idea. I just wish I had a faster computer setup...

Eames house (can't really get it all in one photo)

Interior

[catesta]

Brooklyn Bridge

[catesta]

Scalinata di Spagna - Rome

Edited July 29, 2003 by catesta

[Templejazz]

Part of the top of the Philadelphia Museum of Art

[Jim R]

[catesta]

Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni

Lake Como, Italy

[catesta]

Villa D'Este

Cernobbio, Italy

[Jim R]

Pierre Koenig, Case Study House #22, Hollywood Hills, 1959.

[The Mule]

Bloom High School!!!!!

It's in Chicago Heights, Illinois. My home town. I did not, however, go to Bloom (although many of my friends did). Our neighborhood was districted for a different high school which was much better educationally, but much more drab architecturally.

Haven't seen that building in 20 years...where did you find the picture?

My 2 cents:

The Tribune Tower, Chicago, Illinois

Across the street is The Wrigley Building

Edited July 29, 2003 by The Mule

[Rooster_Ties]

Bloom High School!!!!! It's in Chicago Heights, Illinois.  Haven't seen that building in 20 years...where did you find the picture?

http://www.decopix.com

I wasn't looking for it specifically. Just a general "Art Deco Architecture" site, with a bunch of cool pictures. I liked the picture of Bloom High School, and that's the only reason I posted it here (and thanks for mentioning where it is, in Chicago Heights, as the sit didn't give a specific city).

[Rooster_Ties]

Ralph S. Baker House (1915)

Wilmette, Illinois

J.B. Franke House (1914)

Fort Wayne, Indiana

Schlesinger & Mayer Department Store (1899 & 1903)

(now known as Carson Pirie Scott & Co.)

Chicago, Illinois

Edited July 29, 2003 by Rooster_Ties

[The Mule]

There was a famous jazz musician who was from Chicago Heights...

...Joe Farrell.

[Rooster_Ties]

Railway station in Helsinki, Finland (1910-1914)

[The Mule]

Marina Towers, Chicago, Illinois.

(Steve McQueen once drove a car out of one of these into the river in THE HUNTER....)

[The Mule]

Johnson Wax Building, Racine, Wisconsin, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Interior of same:

[The Mule]

Pan Pacific Auditorium, Los Angeles, California

It burned down....

[J Larsen]

Hands down the best web site I know for this kind of thing is

www.greatbuildings.com

I've spent many, many hours on this site.

[J Larsen]

One of the coolest homes I've seen never really existed: the home on top of the hill in North by Northwest.

[Rooster_Ties]

Boston Avenue Methodist Church (1929)

Tulsa, OK

[catesta]

Il Duomo, Milan

[J Larsen]

Unfortunately, this is the best photo I can find on the web of what I believe to be the world's coolest gas station:

[J Larsen]

For two years, my north-facing living room windows had spectacular views of this building, which was directly across the street. From the picture, you can't really tell how large this building is. It is the third-largest church in the world. The picture is of the west side of the cathedral. My view was of the south side, but I haven't been able to find a picture from that perspective yet.

[J Larsen]

Is it too cliched to mention this home?