JG - Postcard Past / Present Photo (Page 17)

Mar 14, 2023 Copenhagen

Østerport Station, Copenhagen

126 years later, 35,000 passengers a day, and a protected landmark—not bad for a temporary train station. “Not built for eternity” and “in spite of its cheapness, it’s quite decorative” were the reviews when Østerport, designed by DSB chief architect Heinrich Wenck, opened in 1897.

Mar 12, 2023 Chicago From the archive

George Cleveland Hall Branch Library, Chicago

The enigmatic octagon atop the George Cleveland Hall Branch of the Chicago Public Library caps one of the most important libraries in the city.

Mar 10, 2023 Iowa Quad Cities

Sacred Heart Cathedral, Davenport, Iowa

When the Irish community that gave Davenport’s Cork Hill its name outgrew their first church on this site, they hired (who else?) the Midwest’s preeminent Irish-American ecclesiastical architect to design the replacement, the Cork-born James J. Egan.

Mar 6, 2023 Quad Cities Iowa

Davenport Public Library, Iowa

Designed by Edward Durell Stone, the architect’s only building in Iowa, this New Formalist version of the Davenport Public Library replaced a neoclassical Carnegie Library built on this site in 1904.

Feb 23, 2023 Quad Cities Iowa

First Presbyterian Church, Davenport, Iowa

Jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke’s childhood church, Davenport’s First Presbyterian holds an annual jazz liturgy in honor of Bix. The building itself is an impressive example of Richardsonian Romanesque, built in 1899 and designed by C.E. Gottschalk & John Grant Beadle.