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[Max Chavez @maxeschavez]

The perfect building: The Cavalier in La Crosse, WI, “where particular people congregate.”

[Lynn Becker @LynnBecker]

Just two decades ago, Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House was put up for auction, with a real possibility of being dismantled and relocated. The remarkable story of how preservationists worked to save it, and their, last-minute victory, at the link.
https://t.co/K7DipgdVKE

[Max Chavez @maxeschavez]

Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic Robie House (1910). Considered maybe the finest expression of Wright’s Prairie design, the house is one of 8 Wright buildings designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

[Max Chavez @maxeschavez]

Lafayette Park (1956-1959) by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe with landscape design by Alfred Caldwell

[Max Chavez @maxeschavez]

438-440 W. Arlington Place (1895)

[Lynn Becker @LynnBecker]

Dismissively ridiculed by the usual closed minds, and after a long rot under a slumlord 601W's rehab made it a spectacular success, but John Ronan's idea of making the massive abandoned Post Office a civic mausoleum remains some of the most imaginative... https://t.co/3RQZ5SqPvu

[Lynn Becker @LynnBecker]

Say goodbye, March 1. (from Ald. Reilly's Friday newsletter. Cairo interiors from Jordan Mozer website.)

[Lynn Becker @LynnBecker]

So Macy's has shut its Candy Department, which shouldn't come as a surprise because it's had as many empty shelves as a Soviet-era department store.

[Midwest Antiquarian @Eric_Erins]

I went into the Michigan Ave Ralph Lauren for the first time and this place is insane

[Max Chavez @maxeschavez]

Paid another visit to this excellent house

[Midwest Antiquarian @Eric_Erins]

These old Chicago Public Schools are really gorgeous

[Midwest Antiquarian @Eric_Erins]

I always forgot the Hancock was built in the 60’s and it throws me everytime

[Midwest Antiquarian @Eric_Erins]

Confirmed with the painter that they’re restoring the original polychromatic color scheme

[Max Chavez @maxeschavez]

Harry Weese’s subterranean masterpiece: the DC Metro.

[Lynn Becker @LynnBecker]

Saturday bridge lift

[Max Chavez @maxeschavez]

The sprawling grounds of Fort Sheridan, designed by Holabird & Roche.

[Max Chavez @maxeschavez]

Well, I got inside. What an unbelievably gorgeous space (and what a great venue for a night of eerie music performed by the newly formed Varo String Quartet!).

[Preservation Chicago: Love Your City Fiercely! ® @Pres_Chicago]

While we appreciate the public mention of the judges desire for unobstructed lake views,

We respectfully disagree that this wish warrants the $52M demolition of two important landmarks when a high-security adaptive reuse plan is ready to go.

https://t.co/Th8ZIMMLFO

[Midwest Antiquarian @Eric_Erins]

Good Morning