Bryn Mawr Historic District [Edgewater Presbyterian Church]

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

County Building - Sculptural reliefs

Posted on 9:30 PM by babli panday

City Hall-County Building is actually one building which serves two purposes. The City Hall occupies the west half of the building with and County Building occupies the east half is the building. Correspondingly there are two entrances..

East entrance or County Building Entrance..
This post is about the relief sculptures on the County Building entrance.. There are four relief panels..Of these two are by Carl Beil and Leon Hermant.. and.. two are seals of Cook County by Hermon Atkins MacNeil..

Sculptural ornamention by Carl Beil and Leon Hermant..

The seal of Cook County by Hermon Atkins MacNeil..

Wonder why the seal on the facade differs from the real cook county seal as shown on the carpet inside.. For details.. click here..

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# City Hall-County Building ..

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City Hall - Sculptural Reliefs..

Posted on 8:22 PM by babli panday

City Hall-County Bldg.
City Hall-County Building is actually one building which serves two purposes. The City Hall occupies the west half of the building and the County Building occupies the east half is the building. Correspondingly there are two entrances..

West Entrance or City Hall Entrance..
This post is about the relief sculptures on the City Hall entrance. There are four relief panels sculpted in granite by John Flanagan.. Each of the panels represents one of four principal concerns of city government: city playgrounds, public schools, the park system, and water supply system...

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City Hall-County Bldg. [Sculptural reliefs: Fasces]

Posted on 11:50 AM by babli panday

City Hall-County Building: Fasces..

Fasces on City hall entrance..

Fasces on Cook County entrance..

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# City Hall-County Building ..

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Y-symbol at City Hall-County Building

Posted on 7:16 AM by babli panday

Y-symbol or rather Inverted Y-symbol..
City Hall-County Building..
Sculptural ornamentation on the east entrance or the County Building entrance..
Seal of Cook County..
By Hermon Atkins MacNeil..

However, the actual seal of Cook County does not have the Y-symbol, as seen on the carpet at the entrance of the building.. I have no idea as to why the sculptural seal on the Cook County building facade is different from the actual seal of the Cook County.. Artistic license? Maybe!

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# City Hall-County Building ..
# Y-symbol....

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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

River North: Medinah Temple

Posted on 1:28 AM by babli panday

NOTE.. Originally posted: March, 2009..
Reposted: August 31, 2011, with all new images...

Medinah Temple..
Address: 600 N. Wabash Ave.
Year Built: 1912
Architect: Huehl & Schmid ..
Date Designated a Chicago Landmark: June 27, 2001..
Bloomingdale has taken over this building since 2003..

One of the most distinctive buildings on the Near North Side of Chicago, Medinah Temple is considered one of the nation's finest examples of a Middle Eastern-style Shirine temple. The plethora of Islamic and Middle Eastern ornament on the temple's exterior gives it a sense of exotic fantasy well-suited to the Shrine rituals for which the building was constructed.
Some details..

To REITERATE: NOTE..
This article was originally posted: March, 2009..
Reposted: August 31, 2011, with all new images...

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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

River North: Tree Studios, Annexes, and Courtyard

Posted on 1:11 PM by babli panday

Tree Studio, State Street and Ohio Street..

Tree Studio, State Street and Ontario Street..

Tree Studios, Annexes, and Courtyard..
Address: 601-623 N. State St./4-10 E. Ohio St./3-7 E. Ontario St.

Year Built..
State Street building, 1894..
Ohio Street annex, 1912..
Ontario Street annex, 1913 ..

Architects..
State Street building, Parfitt Brothers, with Bauer & Hill..
Ohio Street and Ontario Street annexes, Hill & Woltersdorf..

Date Designated a Chicago Landmark..
State Street building, February 26, 1997,
Ohio Street and Ontario Street annexes and courtyard, June 27, 2001..

Intended as a home for artists at the turn of the century, the Tree Studios was constructed by philanthropists Judge and Mrs. Lambert Tree using the finest craftsmanship and details of the period.

The original 1894 building facing State Street was designed in a Queen Anne style and is lined with retail storefronts that provided rental income that subsidized the rents for the artists' studios. The 1912 and 1913 annexes built on Ohio and Ontario Streets were designed in the English Arts & Crafts style.

The building's large windows, picturesque details, and distinctive interior courtyard instantly made it a unique cultural oasis and home to many significant artists, including sculptors Albin Polasek and John Storrs; illustrator J. Allen St. John; muralist John Warner Norton; painters Ruth Van Sickle Ford, James Murray Haddow, and Pauline Palmer; and actors Peter Falk and Burgess Meredith. The nation's oldest-known artist studios, the building complex is one of the most distinctive features of the River North neighborhood..

At the entrances of the original studio building, a pair of heads, one male and one female are carved into stone ornamentation. The heads are of
- [image above] Judge Lambert Tree
- [image below] His wife Anna Field Tree [daughter of Marshall Field]

Tree Studio, State Street..

Ohio Street Annex..

Ontario Street Annex, now the home of Metropolitan Capital..
Over each window, is the curved pediment, at the center of which is a tree on a shield and two lines from poem..
Art is long, Time is fleeting
So be up and doing, still achieving, still pursuing..
- A Psalm of Life, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow..

Bas Relief, Ontario Street Annex..