Symbolism [Owl]

Owl: symbol of knowledge..
Minerva..

Guilloche

Guilloche..
Decoration of interlaced bands, forming a pattern of circles or loops..
A type of running ornament..

Acroterian

Acroterian..
An ornament placed at the corner or peak of a roof or pediment..

Images above are from the Harold Washington Library.. click here...

Caryatids

Caryatid
A sculptured female figure serving as an ornamental support in place of a column or pilaster..

Images from the "Museum of Science and Industry"..

Glossary of Terms

# Acroterain..
# Bucrania..
# Caryatids..

Symbolism
# Bald Eagle - Symbol of America..
# Ceres - Goddess of grain and patron saint of corn traders..
# Owl - Symbol of wisdom..

Artistic Collaborations: Augustus Saint Gaudens

Augustus Saint Gaudens..
collaboration with
- architects Stanford White and Charles McKim [of McKim Mead and White]
- decorator John La Farge

In Chicago..
Saint Gaudens and Stanford White worked together on..
- Standing Lincoln [Lincoln park]
- Sitting Lincoln [Grant Park]

One of the most important commissions for Augustus Saint Gaudens was the Farragut Monument in Madison Square Park, New York. It was unveiled in 1881 and is be considered the most important work of statuary in New York. It was a revelation of naturalistic modeling at a time that public sculpture was stiff and formal. Farragut stands in a vigorous pose, his long coat flung back by the wind.
The granite base, designed with Stanford White, is in the form of a curved, high-backed bench, with streaming, sea-current-like forms running across the central pier, engulfing two dolphins at the corners...
[Ref: New York Times.. ]

The success of Saint-Gaudens's Farragut Monument led to commissions for some 20 public monuments. Two of which were unveiled in 1887, the heroic standing Abraham Lincoln for Chicago [Lincoln park] and The Puritan [Deacon Samuel Chapin] for Springfield, Massachusetts..

Read..
Augustus Saint-Gaudens .. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Resorce Library..

Grand Interiors

GRAND INTERIORS..

The Grand Interior [Assorted Images Series]..
# Grand Interiors [Ornamental Glass Ceilings/Domes] ..
# Grand Interiors [Coffered Ceiling] ..
# Grand Interiors [Atriums]..
# Grand Interiors [Tiffany in Chicago]..

Grand Stairways..
# Grand Stairways: Part I ..

Some buildings with Grand Interiors..
GRAND INTERIORS..
# AIC - Franke Reading Room..
# Chicago Cultural Center..
# Chicago City Hall-County Building..
# Chicago Union Station..
# The Elks National Memorial..
# James R. Thompson Center..
# Marquette Building..

Sculptural Ornamentation on Facade..

ARCHITECTURAL SCULPTURES & other embellishments..

Before I list the sculptural ornamentation of the facade of the buildings, here are some noteworthy embellishments..
# Bald Eagles of LaSalle Canyon.. ..
# The Y-symbol..

CLOCKS:
# Loop Clocks..
# Loop: The Great Clocks at Marshall Fields..
# Loop: Father Time..
# Loop: Exelon Plaza Clock..
# Loop: CBOT Clock..
# Loop: Peacock Clock..
# Peacock door & more ..

Sculptural Ornamentation on Facade..
# 333 North Michigan Building..
# Chicago Board of Trade building..
# City Hall..
# County Building..
# Fisher Building..
# Harold Washington Library..
# Manhatten Building..
# Museum of Science & Industry - Caryatids..
# New Franklin Building..
# Riverside Plaza..
# Second Presbyterian Church..
# Tribune Tower..
# Willougby Towers..




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Churches & other places of worship in Chicago

Loop..
# Old St. Patrick's Church... [Irish immigrants]..

River North.. &.. Near North Side..
# Assumption Catholic Church.. [Italian immigrants]..
# The Fourth Presbyterian Church..
# Archbisop Quigley Preparatoty Seminary ...

Cathedral District..
# Holy Name [Roman Catholic] Cathedral..
# Saint James [Episcopal] Cathedral..

North Side..
# St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church.. [German immigrants]..
# Moody Church...
# Edgewater Presbyterian Church..

South Side..
# Second Presbyterian Church..
# Quinn Chapel AME Church.. [Chicago's oldest African-American congregation]...
# Olivet Baptist Church.. [Chicago's oldest African American Baptist Church]

Hyde Park..
# Rockefeller Memorial Chapel..

Ukranian Village..
# Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral ..
# St. Boniface Church ..
# St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral ..
# Saints Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral..
# St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral..
# Saint John Cantius Roman Catholic Church ..
# St. George Orthodox Cathedral.. [Russian Orthodox Church]..

Trivia

# Site of Jean Baptiste Point DuSable house / Kinzie Mansion..
# Site of Fort Dearborn..
# Site of the battle of Fort Dearborn..
# Wolf Point..
# The Y-symbol..
# Site of origin of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871..
# Seven buildings that survived the Great Chicago Fire of 1871..
# Wood block alley.
# Hidden truths [Lincoln Park]..
# Metal blob from the Great Chicago Fire of 1871..
# Michigan Avenue bridge & the Roaring Twenties ...
# Balbo Monument..
# Site of Haymarket Tragedy..
# The site of world's first nuclear reactor Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1)..[in 1942]..
# Site of St. Valentine Day's massacre..
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# Merchandise Mart - Enviornment Friendly..
# Great Chicago Fire- Survivors & more.. ..
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Chicago Cityscape Series..

Chicago Cityscape Series..

# Chicago Cityscape from Cityscape Bar, Holiday Inn ...
# Chicago Citycsape from Cliff Dwellers..
# Chicago Skyline from Aeroballoon [Navy Pier]...
# Chicago Skyline Boat tour [from Navy Pier] ..

Landmark Districts, Monuments & Sites

Landmark Districts..
# Arlington and Roslyn Place District..
# Armitage Halsted District..
# Astor Street District..
# Black Metropolis District..
# Burling Row House District..
# Calumet-Giles-Prairie District..
# Cermak Road Bridge District..
# East Lakeshore Drive District..
# McCormick Row House District..
# Mid North District..
# Michigan Boulevard District..
# Motor Row Historic District ...
# Old Chicago Water Tower District ...
# Old Town Triangle District..
# Prairie Avenue District..
# Printing House Row District..
# Seven Houses on the Lakeshore Drive District..
# Ukranian Village District ..
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Landmark Monuments & Memorials..
# Abraham Lincoln Momument
# Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain
# Heald Square Monument
# Stephen A. Douglas Tomb..
# Statue of The Republic..
# Victory Monument
# Tomb of Louis H. Sullivan

Landmark Sites..
# Site of Fort Dearborn
# Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam
# Site of origin of the Great Chicago Fire [October 8-10, 1871]
# Site of Heymarket Tragedy [May 4, 1886]
# Site of the First Self-Sustaining Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction [December 2, 1942]

Chicago Landmarks

The official list of Chicago Landmarks click here ..

Below is listed the designated "Chicago Landmark" images that are posted in this blog ...

# 333 North Michigan Building - Holabird and Root...

A-B-C-D-E.
# Abraham Lincoln Monument..
# Alfred Caldwell Lilly Pool..
# Allerton Hotel [Architect: Murgatroyd & Ogden, with Fugard & Knapp / 1924]
# Alta Vista Terrace District..
# Arlington and Roslyn Place District ..
# Armitage-Halsted District
# Assumption School Building..
# Astor Street District
# Auditorium Theater building...
# Biograph Theater [Architect: Samuel N. Crowen /1914
# Black Metropolis District...
# Bryn Mawr-Belle Shore Apartment Hotels..
# Burling Row House District [Architect: Edward J. Burling / 1875]
# Bush Temple of Music [Architect: J.E.O. Pridmore]
# Cable House [Architect: Cobb and Frost / 1886] ....
# Calumet-Giles-Prairie District...
# Cermak Road Bridge District..
# Charney House [Architect: Adler & Sullivan, with Frank Lloyd Wright / 1891]
# Chess Records Office and Studio..
# Chicago and Northwestern Railway Bridge/Kinzie Street Railroad bridge .
# Chicago Bee Building..
# Chicago Building[Architect: Holabird & Roche / 1905]
# Chicago City Hall-County Building [Architect: Holabird & Roche/ 1911]
# Chicago Cultural Center [Architects: Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge/1897]
# Chicago Defender Building..
# Chicago Harbor Lighthouse..
# Chicago Varnish Company Building [Architect: Henry Ives Cobb / 1895]
# Civic Opera Building [Architects: Graham, Anderson, Probst & White/ 1929]
# Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain
# Clarke House
# Dearborn Street Station .. [Architect: Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz / 1885]
# Delaware Building [Architect: Wheelock and Thomas / 1874]
# Drake Fountain - Richard Henry Park..
# East Lake Shore Drive District ...
# Elks National Memorial ...
# Eighth Regiment Armory..
# [Former] Engine Company 42 Firehouse [Architect: Unknown/1887]
# [Former] Engine Company 104, Truck 31 [Architect: Charles F. Hermann/ 1905]

F-G-H-I-J..
# Fine Arts Bldg - I [architecture] ...
# Fine Arts Bldg - II [murals] ...
# Fisher Building [Architect: Burnham & Co. .. North addition: Peter Weber, Completed: 1896.... North addition, 1907]
# Getty Tomb - by Louis H. Sullivan...
# Glessner House ..
# Harold Washington Library [Architect: Thomas Beeby of Hammond, Beeby and Babka Inc./1991]
# Heald Square Monument [Sculptor: Lorado Taft & Leonard Crunelle/1941]
# Ida B. Wells-Barnett House [Joseph A. Thain]..

K-L-M-N-O..
# Krause Music Store - Louis Sullivan & William Presto ...
# Kovler Lion House [Architects: Perkins, Fellows & Hamilton / 1912]
# Madlener House [Architect: Richard E. Schmidt & Hugh M.G. Garden /1902
# Manhattan Building [Architect: William Le Baron Jenney/ 1891]
# Marquette Building [Architect: Holabird & Roche / 1895]
# Maxwell-Briscoe Automobile Co. Building...
# McCormick Row House District [Architect: Colton and Sons /1889]
# Medinah Temple [Architect: Huehl & Schmid / 1912]
# Michigan Avenue bridge / 1920
# Michigan Boulevard District
# Mid North District
# Monadnock Block [ Architect: North half: Burnham & Root ... South half: Holabird & Roche ... completed: North half 1889-91 ... South half 1891-93
# Motor Row Historic District...
# Museum of Science and Industry...
# Old Colony Building [Architect: Holabird & Roche/1894]
# Old Town Triangle District
# Old Water Tower District
# Overton Hygienic Building..

P-Q-R-S-T..
# Prairie Avenue Historic District
# Printing House Row District
# Quinn Chapel AME Church..
# Reebie Storage Warehouse ...
# Riverside Plaza [Architect: Holabird & Roche /1929]
# Rockefeller Memorial Chapel [Architect: Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue /1928]
# Roloson Houses - Frank Llyod Wright...
# Rosehill Cemetery Entrance - [Architect: William W. Boyington/1864]..
# Second Presbyterian Church [Architect: James Renwirk/ 1874 .. reconstruction: Howard Van Doren Shaw/1900]
# Seven Houses on Lake Shore Drive District [Architect: Various / Year Built: 1889-1917]
# Site of Fort Dearborn
# Site of the Sauganash Hotel/Wigwam
# Site of origin of the Great Chicago Fire of October 8-10, 1871
# Site of Heymarket Tragedy of May 4, 1886
# Site of the First Self-Sustaining Controlled Nuclear Chain Reaction of December 2, 1942
# Stephen A. Douglas Tomb - Leonard W. Volk...
# St. Ignatius College Prep Building..
# South Pond Refectory and Men's and Ladies' Comfort Station
# Sunset Cafe..
# Supreme Life Building ...
# Sydney Kent House [Burnham & Root] ..
# Tree Studios, Annexes, and Courtyard
# Tribune Tower [Architect: Raymond M. Hood and John Mead Howells / 1925]
# Theurer-Wrigley House [Architect: Richard E. Schmidt / 1896]


U-V-W-X-Y-Z..
# Union Stock Yard Gate [ by Burnham & Root]..
# Unity Hall ..
# The Ukrainian Village
# Union Station - The Great Hall
# Victory Monument [Sculptor: Leonard Crunelle/ 1927
# Wabash Avenue YMCA..
# Wood-Maxey-Boyd House [Architect: John C. Cochrane]...
# Wheeler-Kohn Mansion [Architect: Otis L. Wheelock/ 1870]

Historic District..
# Bryn Mawr Historic District



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Index

THE LOOP
# 1 South Wacker Drive [Architect: Helmut Jahn /1982]
# 333 Wacker Drive [Architects: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates PC/1983]
# Art Institute of Chicago..
# Chicago Building [Architect: Holabird & Roche /1905]
# Chicago Cultural Center [Architects: Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge/1897]
# City Hall-County Building..[Architect: Holabird & Roche/ 1911]
# Citicorp Center [Architects: Murphy/Jahn /1987]
# Civic Opera Building [Architects: Graham, Anderson, Probst & White/1929 ].
# Dearborn Street Station [Architect: Cyrus L. W. Eidlitz / 1885]
# Delaware Building [Architect: Wheelock and Thomas /1874]
# Donohue Building [Architect: Julius Speyer / 1913]
# Fine Arts Bldg - I [architecture] ...
# Fine Arts Bldg - II [murals] ...
# Fisher Building [Architect: Burnham & Co. .. North addition: Peter Weber / 1896 ... North addition/ 1907]
# Manhattan Building [Architect: William Le Baron Jenney/ 1891]
# Marquette Building [Architect: Holabird & Roche / 1895]
# Monadnock Block [ Architect: North half: Burnham & Root/1991 ... South half: Holabird & Roche/1993]
# Harold Washington Library .. [Architect: Thomas Beeby of Hammond, Beeby and Babka Inc./ 1991] .. click here ....
# James R Thompson Center ... click here ...
# New Franklin Building [Architect: George C. Nimmons /1916]
# Old Colony Building [Architect: Holabird & Roche/1894]
# Old Franklin Building [Architect: George C. Nimmons /1883]
# Printing House Row District
# Riverside Plaza [Architect: Holabird & Roche /1929 ]
# Terminals Building [Architect: John M. Van Osdel/1892
# Michigan Boulevard District

NEAR NORTH SIDE ..
including Streeterville, River North and Gold Coast ..
STREETERVILLE
Streeterville is a neighborhood in Chicago, north of the Chicago River. It is bounded by the river on the south, Michigan Avenue on the west, and Lake Michigan on the north and east.
# Tribune Tower.. [Architect: Raymond M. Hood and John Mead Howells / 1925]
# Wrigley Building ...[Architects: Graham, Anderson and Probst /1920]
# Allerton Hotel .. [Architect: Murgatroyd & Ogden, with Fugard & Knapp / 1924]
# The Fourth Presbyterian Church
# Lake Point Tower .. [Architects: John Heinrich and George Schipporeit/1968] .. click here ...
# Museum of Contemporary Art .. [Architect: Josef Paul Kleihues
# Old Chicago Water Tower District
# Old Water Tower
# Chicago Avenue Pumping Station
# Chicago Fire Department, Fire Station No 98
# Chicago Harbor Lighthouse..
# Chicago's Water Filteration System...
# Navy Pier: Chicago Skyline from Aeroballoon...
# Navy Pier: Skyline Lake Tour...


RIVER NORTH
River North is a neighborhood in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois. It is bound by Michigan Avenue to the east, Chicago Avenue to the north, and the Chicago River to the south and west. This neighborhood, home of The River North Gallery District, has the largest concentration of art galleries in the United States outside of Manhattan.
# River North - I [bldgs along Chicago River] ...
# River North - II ...
# River North -III [Cathedral District] ...
# Assumption Catholic Church
# Bush Temple of Music [Architect: J.E.O. Pridmore / 1901]
# Cable House [Architect: Cobb and Frost / 1886]
# Chicago Varnish Company Building [Architect: Henry Ives Cobb / 1895]
# Marina City .. [ Architect: by Bertrand GoldBerg/ 1964]
# Medinah Temple .. [Architect: Huehl & Schmid / 1912]
# Tree Studios, Annexes, and Courtyard
# [Former] Engine Company 42 Firehouse
# Reid Murdoch Center
Cathedral District..
# Saint James Cathedral
# Holy Name Cathedral

GOLD COAST :
Exact borders are subject to dispute, but generally extend from North Ave. south to Division St. and west to Clark St. and also includes the areas east of State St. south to Oak St. and east of Michigan Ave. south to Walton St.
# Historic Gold Coast District
# Astor Street District
# Seven Houses on Lake Shore Drive District
# Charney House ...[Architect: Adler & Sullivan, with Frank Lloyd Wright / 1891]
# Archbishop's Residence ... [Architect: Alfred F. Pashley /1885]
# Florsheim Mansion .. [Architect: Andrew Rebori/ 1938]
# Madlener House .. [ Architect: Richard E. Schmidt & Hugh M.G. Garden / 1902
# Patterson McCormick Mansion ...[Architect: Stanford White / 1892 .. click here ...
# Playboy Mansion [original][Architect: David Adler /1899
# Archbisop Quigley Preparatoty Seminary [Architect: Gustav Steinbeck and Zachary Taylor Davis /1917]
# William Wrigley residence .. Completed: 1885
# John Wellborn Root's residence

NORTH SIDE..
including Lincoln Park, Mid-North District, Old Town, Edgewater Community ..
LINCOLN PARK
# Lincoln Park..
# North Avenue Pedestrian Bridge
# Cafe Brauer / South Pond Refactory [Architect: Dwight H. Perkins]
# Carson Cottage / Men's and ladies' comfort station [Architect: Joseph Lyman Silsbee]

# Elks National Memorial [Architects: Egerton Swartwout / 1926]...
# Armitage-Halsted District .. click here ..
# McCormick Row House District [Architect: Colton and Sons /1889]
# Biograph Theater [Architect: Samuel N. Crowen /1914]
# Burling Row House District [Architect: Edward J. Burling / 1875] .. click here ...
# Mid North District [Architect: Various / Year Built: 1865-1900]
# Arlington and Roslyn Place District
# Theurer-Wrigley House ...[Architect: Richard E. Schmidt / 1896]

Old Town..
# Old Town Triangle District..
# St. Michael's Church

# Bryn Mawr Historic District
# Belle Shore and Bryn Mawr Apartment Hotels
# Edgewater Presbyterian Church
# Graceland Cemetery


NEAR SOUTH SIDE ..
# Prairie Avenue Historic District
# The Second Presbyterian Church
# Glessner House
# Clarke House
# Wheeler-Kohn Mansion
# Motor Row Historic District
# Ford Showroom in Motor Row District
# BF Goodrich Co. showroom.
# Maxwell-Briscoe Automobile Co. Building
# Lofts in Motor Row District..
# Chess Records Office and Studio ..
# The Illinois Automobile Club ..
# Quinn Chapel AME Church ..
# Former St. Luke's Hospital ..

SOUTH SIDE..
BRONZEVILLE..
# Overton Hygienic Building..
# Chicago Bee Building..
# Chicago Defender Building..
# Wabash Avenue YMCA..
# Unity Hall ..
# Supreme Life Building ...
# Sunset Cafe..
# Eighth Regiment Armory..
# Victory Monument..

# Olivet Baptist Church.. click here..

HYDE PARK..
# Rockefeller Memorial Church..


JACKSON PARK..
# Museum of Science and Industry..
# Osaka Japanese Garden ...
# Animal Bridge..


UKRANIAN VILLAGE..
# The Ukrainian Village ...
# Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral ..
# St. Boniface Church ..
# St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral ..
# Saints Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral..
# St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral..
# Saint John Cantius Roman Catholic Church ..
# St. George Orthodox Cathedral.. [Russian Orthodox Church]..



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