Mandel Brothers Warehouse

This building is located at 3254 N. Halsted, Chicago.    This was built for Mandel  Brothers Department Store as warehouse for storage of dry goods.  The construction project was plagued by strikes but was eventually completed in 1903.

Mandel Brothers Warehouse

The architectural style of the building was a combination of late 19th and early 20th century Revival and Italian Renaissance.   The architects were Holabird and Roche.

Mandel Brothers Warehouse

Mandel  Brothers was a Chicago department store.   The first store opened in 1855 at State and Van Buren.    The store had several locations in the 1870’s.    By the 1880’s, the store was located at State and Madison.     By 1880’s, the store employed 800 people.  By the beginning  of the 20th century, there were 3000 employees.   The store was rebuilt in 1912 and was renovated in 1948.     The store began to decline in the 1960’s.    It closed in the 1970’s.

Mandel Brothers Warehouse

The Warehouse building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August, 1993.   Currently it is used as a residence predominately lofts

42nd Precinct Police Station

The 42nd Precinct Town Hall Police Station is located at 3600 N. Halsted Street in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago.  Construction started on the building in 1906; it was completed in 1907.  Costs were $35,000.  The architect is unknown.  It is one of the older police stations in Chicago.

It is a 2 story brick and stone building.  It is rectangular in shape.  Style is Classical Revival. The exterior facade is symmetrical.  It features copper fornices.

The building was abandoned in 2010 due to a newly constructed replacement.

This building was listed on the National Register of  Historic Places on January, 2013.

42nd Precinct Police Station

42nd Precinct Police Station

42nd Precinct Police Station

42nd Precinct Police Station

Ropp-Grabill House

This building is  located at 4132 N. Keeler Avenue in Chicago.  It is located in the  Irving Park neighborhood.  It is thought that it was built in the 1860’s; but records of this period were lost in the Chicago Fire.   The style is Italianate.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

Ropp-Grabill House

Ropp-Grabill House

Ropp -Grabill House

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Ropp-Grabill House

Robb Grabill House

Ropp Grabill House

Ropp Grabill House

Robb Grabill House

Carl Schurz High School.

Carl Schurz is a Chicago Public High School.  It is located in the  Irving Park  Neighborhood.  The address is 4340 N. Milwaukee Avenue.   The school is named after Carl  Schurz,  a German American soldier and statesman.  The school opened in 1910. The construction costs were $5000,000.   The building was designed by Dwight Perkins.  Its style is a combination of Chicago and Prairie.   Capacity was 1,4000 students.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 2/22/2011

Carl Schurz High School

Charles N. Loucks House

Charles N. Loucks House

This house is located at 3926 North Keeler Avenue in the  Irving Park neighborhood Chicago.  It was build in 1889 for real  estate developer Charles N. Loucks.  The architect was Clarence Tabor.

Charles N.  Loucks House

The style is Queen Anne.  Notable features are:  1) colored beveled glass windows; 2) verandah with beaded spindle works; 3) applied metal ornaments; 4) distinctive turret; 5)pressed brick external wall on the first floor; 6) cedar shingles on the external wall of the upper levels.

Charles N. Loucks  House

Charles N. Loucks House

Charles N. Loucks  House

This house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in February, 1984.