JG - Postcard Past / Present Photo (Page 16)

May 2, 2023 Chicago Illinois

17th Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago

Chicago has filled in around it (...and the hotel next door filled in its balconies), but Harry Weese’s modernist Seventeenth Church of Christ Scientist, wedged into an oddly-shaped little lot, still looks as simultaneously ancient and futuristic as the day it opened in 1968.

Apr 10, 2023 From the archive Illinois

Freeport Post Office, Freeport, Illinois

Freeport's federal building & post office was a cute mini Beaux Arts rectangle when it opened in 1903.

Mar 24, 2023 Iowa Quad Cities

St. John's M.E. Church, Davenport, Iowa

The neighboring houses were razed and at some point St. John's lancet arch belfry openings were filled in, but otherwise this gothic revival church in Iowa looks like it hasn’t aged a day. Built in 1903, St. John's M.E. Church was designed by Clausen & Burrows.

Mar 21, 2023 Quad Cities Iowa

Linke Tourist Homes, Davenport, Iowa

The 1930s version of an Airbnb, tourist homes were regular-ass homes with rooms rented out to travelers by the homeowners—in this case, John and Edith Linke.

Mar 18, 2023 Copenhagen

Østerbrogade and Classensgade, Copenhagen

Østerbrogade 44 lost the entirety of its facade ornamentation in a 1935 modernizing remodel—the comically deadpan conservation assessment describes it as “somewhat dead”—but otherwise the northern edge of Copenhagen’s Little Triangle is basically the same 120 years later.