Postcard Past / Present Photo

Merged image of the ca. 1940 postcard and the 2023 photo

Oct 28, 2026 Indiana

Bartholomew County Buildings, Columbus, Indiana

Though it was built 70 years before Columbus became an architectural hotspot, it’s fitting that the Indiana town is home to the most elaborate surviving Second Empire style courthouse in the state.

Linen postcard on top, 1950, a five story builidng on a corner and a pink gatehouse across the street. Photo below, it's replaced by a housing development obsured by street trees, a new tower

Oct 22, 2026 Chicago

71st Street Business District, Chicago

South Shore’s 1920s real estate boom, the preservation fight to turn what was once a racist country club into a park district asset for the all Chicagoans, vacancy, disinvestment, demolition, and the first market-rate development in the neighborhood since the Great Depression.

Stacked image of the 1970s postcard and 2023 photo

Oct 16, 2026 Indiana

First Baptist Church, Columbus, Indiana

Enigmatic and unique, one of the best churches in the United States sits atop a knoll in an otherwise perfectly ordinary postwar subdivision in Indiana.

Side-by-side image of the 1941 postcard and the 2026 photo, a bronze equestrian statue of George Washington on a stone plinth, now surrounded by small flags on metal poles with names.

Oct 7, 2026 Chicago Illinois

Washington Monument at Entrance to Washington Park/Other Washingtons, Chicago

Amanda Williams takes an otherwise inert George Washington equestrian statue and turns it into a living monument in dialogue with its neighborhood, an exercise in archive-making.

Split image of the postcard and the photo

Oct 1, 2026 San Francisco California

Baldacchino, St. Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco

An element out of ancient Catholic architecture reimagined for modernity in the first cathedral built in the US following Vatican II.