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Photo Details

J.W. Taylor, Chicago, 161 Monroe St '72'

4001 (deleted)

‘2204’

‘820’

'2494'

‘1660’

‘220’

'1027'

'2891'

'2536 IWT'' [?JWT]

‘2059’

'115' [twice]

Inscriptions

obv: 'Honolulu'rev: -

obv: 'Royal Palace Honolulu'rev: 'King's Palace Honolulu'

obv: 'Royal Palace Honolulu'rev: -

obv: 'Honolulu'rev: -

obv: 'Honolulu'rev: 'Honolulu'

obv: 'Chicago'rev: '?B Spaulding Chicago'

obv: 4002rev: 'Fleishman's Chicago Cadell Archt;

obv: 'House Insurance Offices Chicago'rev: 'House Insurance Chicago W.L.B. Jenney''

obv: 'Chicago'rev: 'Chicago Treat + Foltz ?Co'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / S.S. Bemans'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / Burling and Whitehouse'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / Cobb + Frost Archt'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago'

obv: 'Rookery Bld Chicago' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: 'Rookery Bldg / Chicago / Burnham + Root Arch' [plus Kilburn's stamp]

obv: 'Hall Mr Wills [sic] Residence Chicago'rev: 'Chicago / Mr Wills ?[sic] enter + Hall / ?Clay Ar'

Identification and Refs

Church, Honolulu

Palace, Honolulu

Honolulu

Commercial street in Honolulu

Albert G Spalding house, 4926 South Woodlawn, Kenwood, c 1885, dem 1903.
Info from Susan O'Connor

Chicago, house

Chicago: Home Insurance Building, La Salle & Adams Sts, by W L B Jenney 1892, dem 1931. Turak, William Le Baron Jenney, pp 237-263

Chicago, house, possibly by Treat & Foltz. Could be one of (A) Charles B Fawell house, 120 East Pearson St, just west of Lake Shore Drive, 1882; (B) Charles Libby house, Michigan Ave; (C) George Armour house, Prairie Ave; (D) Martin Ryerson house, Drexel Ave [Randall, p 375. Witheys, pp 213-4, 605-6]

Chicago, house

Chicago, house: ? by S S Beman. Probably one of (A) Jones/General Torrance / Rockefeller-McCormick house, Lake Shore Dr & Bellevue Pl, (B) Robert Todd Lincoln house, 1234 Lake Shore Dr (after his return from 4 years as US Minister to GB); (C) W W Kimball house, 1801 Prairie Ave, 1887 [ref Witheys, pp 49-50]

Chicago, house: ? by Burling & Whitehouse [?Nickerson house, 40 East Erie St, 1883; or Cudahy house, 23rd St & Michigan Ave, remodelled as a hotel]

Chicago: by Cobb & Frost [but not the Potter Palmer mansion, ref Payne]

Chicago

Chicago: The Rookery, 209 South La Salle St, by Burnham & Root, 1885-6.

Chicago: M D Wells house, by Wheelock & Clay, c 1889 [Lewis & Morgan, p 133, ref Inland Architect and News Record, III (March 1889), p 23]. See also no 95.

Content

Gothic twin-towered brick church, ?c1875 at end of street with balconies

palace, as seen today, but with much open ground around

palace, viewed from one end, with a parallel 2 st building not apparent in previous view

river scene with boats & huts

unsealed road or driveway in an avenue of palms

3 children posed under a traveller's palm / tree, adjoining a 2 st building

view from above of a street of mainly 2 st commercial buildings, mountains in the background; on corners of transverse street, '1881 / Wilder & Co' and '[-] W. Mac[Far]lane [-]'

hallway with base of staircase, view to ?dining room, Aesthetic/Japonais taste

triangular hall, lower part of staircase with Sullivanesque newel post, timber chimneypiece & grate set in tiles

Home Insurance: upper landing of public staircase with Sullivanesque / Art Nouveau metalwork & glazing at main entrance

heavily timbered stair hall with embossed paper

hall with stair off, broad arches, timber panelled ceiling

hall with stair at back, elaborate quasi-Moresque decoration, Sullivanesque fireplace in foreground

hall with tiled floor, stair and cotton reel frieze in coarse Aesthetic Movt taste, bizarre gasalier

heavily timbered hall with stair, Frenchified chimneypiece, shiny striated paper in wall and panels of ceiling

fully timbered hall with stair in very advanced taste, horizontal wall and door panelling, rectangular chimneypiece with minimal ornament

hall with stair, papered walls, chimneypiece on turned supports

the lobby, skylight, and staircase with fantastic electroliers on the newel posts

heavily papered hall with eclectic timber staircase

Architects

William le Baron Jenney (1832-1907) Chicago [Randall, pp 27-8 & passim; Witheys, pp 324-5; Condit, 'Jenney'; Turak, William Le Baron Jenney]

Treat & Foltz [Samuel Atwater Treat (1839-1910) & Frederick [Fritz] L Foltz (1843-1916)] [Witheys, pp 213-4, 273-4, 605-6].

Architects

Solon Spencer Beman (1853-1914) [Witheys, pp 49-50; Jordy, p 70; Randall, p 360]

Burling & Whitehouse [Edward Burling [1819-1892] & Francis M Whitehouse (1848-1938)] [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper,pp 40, 206, 217; see also Witheys, pp 96, 653-4; Randall p 361].

Cobb & Frost [Henry Ives Cobb (1859-1931) & Charles Sumner Frost (1856-1931)] [Witheys, pp 128-9, 224]. [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper,p 80]

Architects

Burnham & Root [partnership from 1873 to 1891 of Daniel Hudson Burnham (1846-1912) & John Wellborn Root (1850-1892) [Witheys, pp 96-8, 525-6]; Randall, p 30; [Witheys p 125]. [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper,pp 63, 113]

Wheelock & Clay [Otis Leonard Wheelock (1816-c1886) & William Wilson Clay (1849-1926)] [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper, pp 63, 113; Randall, p 362; Witheys pp 125, 168]

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'2517 / J.W. Taylor, Chicago, 151 Monr[oe St]' [cut off]

'1754'

'7061 IWT / Union Club Chi'

'8025 / J W D'

'2537 LWT.'

‘155’

‘2399’

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chambers of Commerce / Staircase Chicago / W.W. Buffington A [cut off]'

obv: 'Ball Room Chicago' rev: 'R[..]sleys Ballroom / Chicago'

obv: 'Union League Club Chicago' rev: 'Union League Club'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: -

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / Mullet + Ristau[...]'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / by Silsbee'

Chicago: Chamber of Commerce: could be Baumann & Huehl's Chamber of Commerce building, 1888-9, dem 1926 [illustrated in Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper, p 65; also Randall p 49, giving the construction date as 1890 - which cannot be correct - and the demolition as 1928].

Chicago: R[..]sleys Ballroom

Chicago: Chicago, Union League Club, 110-114 Jackson St, by W L B Jenney 1887 [Randall, pp 111, 158]

Chicago

Chicago: by Silsbee, probably before 1885 [ref Payne]

Chicago: house by Silsbee. Could be Potter Palmer house, 1874, or J L Silsbee house, 1889.

three levels of staircase, climbing around open metal lift cages, gallery with floors in ?lino.

end of a tall room with a corner fireplace and a gallery over.

dining room with table in foreground, Byzantine columns, inglenook and fireplace, bar.

end of a room, windows flanking a fireplace with a plain brick rectangular surround, & Franco-Byzantine superstructure

dining room with deep coved ceiling, interesting glazed tile chimneypiece and ornate wall clock

hall with stair at one end, fireplace with highly elaborate Gothic arcaded superstructure

end of room with bookcases, chimneybreast flanked by abacus top screens, rectangular fireplace and tiled surround, classical timber overmantel with mirrors

Baumann & Huehl [Edward Baumann (1828-1929) and Harris W Huehl (1862-1919)] [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper, p 133; Randall, pp 49, 308 &c]

Architects

William le Baron Jenney (1832-1907) Chicago [Randall, pp 27-8 & passim; Witheys, pp 324-5; Condit, 'Jenney'; Turak, William Le Baron Jenney]

Architects

A B Mullet & Company [partnership from 1880 to 1890 of Alfred B Mullett (1834-1890) & his sons Thomas A Mullett (1862-1935) and Frederick M Mullett (d 1924)] [Witheys, pp 432-3] [Lewis & Morgan, p 142. See generally Lawrence Wodehouse, 'Alfred B. Mullett and his French Style Government Buildings', Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians,XXXIXI (March 1972), pp 23-7].

Joseph Lyman Silsbee (1845-1913) [Witheys give his forename as James; Randall gives the birth date as 1848]. [Witheys, pp 554-6; Scully, Shingle Style, pp 86n, 158; Lewis & Morgan, p 151; Jordy, p 70; Gilbert, passim; Randall p 374]

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'Pullman. 2. arcade from N.W. / J.W. Taylor, Publisher / 146 La Salle St, Chicago'

'Pullman. [...] detail of South Entrance. / J.W. Taylor [Publisher] / 146 La Salle St, Chicago'

'L W - Taylor - Photo Chi''853 / Pullman Bldg / JWT''[the 'L' is probably a 'J' in reverse, written backwards on the neg]

'2103'

'852'

'272'

'2117'

'5069 Taylor'

'8023 / J.W.T'

obv: 'Kinsleys Resaurant Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / Kinsleys Resaurant'

obv: 4002rev: 'Fleishman's Chicago Cadell Archt;

obv: 'Pullman Chicago' rev: -

obv: 'Pullman Buildings Chicago' rev: 'Pullman Buildings / Chicago / S.S. Beman / Architects'

obv: 'Pullman Chicago' rev: 'Pulman [sic] Bldg / S.S. Beman / Chicago'

obv: 'Pulman [sic] Blds Chicago' rev: 'Pulman [sic] Bldgs / Chicago'

obv: 'Pullman Chicago' rev: 'Pulman [sic] Block / Chicago / Mr Beeman Arch'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Pulman [sic] Bdgs / Chicago / S Beman Arch'

obv: 'Pulman [sic] Block Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / Pulman [sic] Block / Beeman [sic] Ar'

obv: 'Palmer House Chicago' 'No 2' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: 'Palmer House / Barber Shop / Chicago' [plus Kilburn's stamp]

obv: 'Palmer House Chicago' 'No 3' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: [Kilburn's stamp]

Chicago: Kinsley Building, 105-107 Adams St, by F L Charnley (or Charnley & Clay), 1885 [Lowe, p 188; Randall pp 110, 165]. See also no 69.

Chicago, house

Chicago: Pullman Arcade

Chicago: Pullman Building [offices], 200 South Michigan Avenue, sw cnr Adams St, by S S Beman, 1884 (replaced by the Borg-Warner Building in 1958) [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper, p 203; Bach & Wolfson, p 15; Randall p 100; 1883-4, pp 49-50, Pullmania web site]

Chicago: Pullman Building [offices]

Chicago: Palmer House

Chicago: Palmer House III, 17 East Monroe St, by J M Van Osdel & C W Palmer, 1874-5 (first fireproof hotel), replaced 1925 [Bach & Wolfson, p 44; Witheys, pp 616-7; Bruegmann, pp 16-18; Zukowsky, pp 268-9].

rectangular corner fireplace with sub-Talbertian surround, no chimneypiece over, papered walls

triangular hall, lower part of staircase with Sullivanesque newel post, timber chimneypiece & grate set in tiles

identical view, slightly clearer

identical view, substantially better contrast

detail of entrance to arcade in previous building, with an arcaded corbel table of an almost Furnessian character across the bressummer

corner view of 9 st building with angle turret, mainly segmental arch openings

detail within main archway of previous, looking towards the exterior: square glazed skylights, Sullivanesque ornament

archway rto stairwell, apparently within the previous bldg

detail of grd fl arcade & first floor windows with one edge of main arch

interior space with glazed screen & doors, glazed roof lights, balustraded edges of two light or stair wells

same as previous

Large barber's saloon with mirrors down either side & facing armchairs, central columns, elaborate Gothic marble stand with basins

Large reception rm with elaborate shallow relief decoration on ceiling, ?stencilled wall surfaces; Corinthian pilastrated piers at one side, occasional chairs &c.

F L Charnley OR Charnley & Clay [William Clay] [Lowe, p 188]

Solon Spencer Beman (1853-1914) [Witheys, pp 49-50; Jordy, p 70; Randall, p 360]

Charles W Palmer (1848-1927) [Bach & Wolfson, p 44, refer to C M Palmer] [Witheys, p 453].

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'8020 / J W Taylor'

'8022 / J W Taylor' 'Palmer House'

'848' 'J. W. Taylor, Chicago, 151 Monroe St'

Printed mount: 'Runnels & Stateler ' No. 957 Market Street, San Francisco, Cal.'

Runnels & Stateler printed mount.

'1082'

'2856'

'1404'

'B 2379 Dining Room, Palace Hotel''Faber Photo., San Francisco'

'1421'

'4021'

‘5005’

‘2652’

'2091 J.W. Taylor's Architectural Photographic Series, 146 La Salle Street, Chicago'

obv: 'Palmer House Chicago' 'No 6' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: 'Palmer House / Chicago' [plus Kilburn's stamp]

obv: 'Palmer House Chicago' 'No 1' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: 'Palmer House / Chicago' [plus Kilburn's stamp]

obv: 'Oriental Hall'rev: 'Oriental Hall / Chicago'

obv: 'Oriental Hall'rev: 'Oriental Hall'

obv: 'Maison Riché America' 'E.G. Kilburn 20. / Melbourne'rev: 'Maison Riché / Cor. Geary + Dupont' [plus printed material - see below]

obv: 'Library Buckley [sic]' 'E.G. Kilburn / Melbourne 13'rev: '#29 / State University Library / Berkeley' [plus printed material - see below]

obv: 'Olympic Club Gymnasium' 'E.G. Kilburn 19 / Melbourne'rev: 'Olympic Club / Gymnasium' [plus printed material - see below]

obv: 'America' 'E.G. Kilburn / Melbourne / 9'rev: 'J.J. O'Brien' '#125 / Establishment of / J.J. OBrien + Co / Dry Goods' [plus printed material - see below]

obv: 'West Hotel Mineapolis [sic]'rev: 'West Hotel / Mineapolis [sic]' / Wm Buffington / Archt.'

obv: 'New York Life'rev: 'New York. Life'

obv: 'San Francisco'rev: 'Diamond Palace / Montgomerie Street / San Francisco'

obv: 'Indianapolis'rev: 'Indianapolis State / Interior / C.D. May'

obv: 'Malden Library Mass.'rev: 'Malden Library Mass / By Richardson'

obv: 'America'rev: -

obv: 'Military Rooms. New York'rev: 'New York / 7th Regiment Army

obv: 'Minneapolis'rev: 'Minneapolis / By [?Sayler]'

obv: 'City Hall Pittsburg [sic]'rev: 'Pittsburg Pa. / City Hall / By H.H. Richardson'

obv: 'Union Depôt. Indianapolis'rev: 'Indianapolis Depôt / Union Depôt. '

obv: 'No 7' 'America' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: 'Milwaukee' [plus Kilburn's stamp]

obv: 'State House Hartford USA.'rev: 'Hartford. Conn / State House'

Chicago: Palmer House

Chicago: Oriental Hall, American Express Building, 76 Monroe Street, by H H Richardson 1884, decoration probably by Thomas Moses & David Strong of Sosman and Landis, ref Moore, Masonic Temples, p 81.

Chicago: Oriental Hall, American Express Building

San Francisco: Maison Riché, corner Geary & Dupont Sts.

Berkeley: Library of the University of California at Berkeley

Chicago: Olympic Club Gymnasium.

Chicago: J.J. O'Brien store.

Minneapolis: West Hotel, by L S Buffington.

? New York Life building.

San Francisco: Diamond Palace, Montgomerie St

Indianapolis State Capitol, by Edwin May

Massachusetts: Converse Memorial Library, Malden (near Boston), by H H Richardson 1884- [Van Rensselaer, pp 78, 81, 83]

San Francisco, Palace Hotel

New York: 7th Regiment headquarters

Minneapolis: ?hotel

Pittsburgh: probably Alleghany County Buildings, by H.H. Richardson, 1883-8 [Van Rensselaer, pp 89-91]

Indianapolis: Union Depôt

Milwaukee: ?hotel

Hartford, Connecticut: State House

Dining room with glazed dome over square central area, supported on Corinthian columns. Same as the erngraving from The Palmer House Illustrated,1876, reproduced in Bruegmann, p 18.

Semicircular library or writing room with Moresque decoration, fully glazed ceiling, stained glass partition panels: tables with writing surfaces, other chairs in line facing an arched niche with a Mogul alfiz.

Long room with Moresque decoration, billowing vaults carried on multifoil arches and brackets.

Same room, looking towards an organ at one end.

Dining room in two compartments with a central column, sub-Moresque geometric filler paper and tiled dado, furnished with multiple round tables.

Three storey circular space, two levels with iron columns and balcony, radiating bookstacks; third level with balustraded gallery.

Two storey high gymnsium with open timber trussed roof & balcony all around upper level.

Large columnar room with skylight, banks of drawers with bolts of cloth &c on top - more suggestive of mercery than dry goods.

Tall dining room with Moresque decoration.

Looks like a periodicals reading room, 2 storeys high with marble colums and upper gallery along one side.

Large jeweller's shop with mirrors, glass cabinets, crystal ?gaseliers. coved & panelled ceiling with trompe l'oeil painting.

Tall hall filled with tables, each taking two seats, and at one end a raised desk and seat.

Elegant 2 storey height timber barrel-vaulted library interior with balconies to upper level stacks.

Long dining room with Roman Doric ordonnance & coffered ceiling

Barrel vaulted library with mezzanine gallery & shelving. metal screens.

Large dining room with coved and panelled ceiling, somewhat Moresque decoration.

Interior view near base of stair, with very simple semicircular arches, barrel vaults and cross vaults, ornamented only with foliated capitals and impost band.

Public room with teller's window, a central seat around a column, and a screen with a Mozarab arcade [apparently based upon S Miguel de la Escalada].

Bar and dining area: a large disc behind the bar bears the letters 'Franz ... ann'.

Tall court room with Gothic windows, timber gallery.

Charles W Palmer (1848-1927) [Bach & Wolfson, p 44, refer to C M Palmer] [Witheys, p 453].

Architects

F L Charnley OR Charnley & Clay [William Clay] [Lowe, p 188]

Leroy Sunderland Buffington (1847-1931) [Witheys, pp 49-50].

Edwin May (1824-1880) [Witheys, p 401].

Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886) [Van Rensselaer, passim; Witheys, pp 508-510]

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'4119 Hotel del Coronado - White and Gold Drawing Room - Coronado, San Diego Co., Cal. Faber Photo., San Francisco.'

'4183 Reading and Chess Rooms, Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, Cal. Faber Photo., San Francisco.'

'4192 Bar-room, Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, Cal. Faber Photo., San Francisco.'

'4106 Hotel del Coronado - Office - Coronado, San Diego Co., Cal. Faber Photo., San Francisco.'

'B 4291 Hotel del Coronado - Coronado, San Diego Co., Cal. Faber Photo., San Francisco.'

'B 4291 Hotel del Coronado - Bridal Chamber - Coronado, San Diego Co., Cal. Faber Photo., [cropped]'

‘1757’

‘2314’

'1694' [twice]

? ‘1486’

embossed: 'Bedford Lewers & Co / 141, Strand, London'

‘2279’

‘51’

'51'

'5053 / J.W. Taylor, Chi'

'1450'

‘1869’

‘1873’

obv: 'America' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: [Kilburn's stamp]

obv: 'America'rev: -

obv: 'No 3' 'America' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: [Kilburn's stamp]

obv: 'America' rev: -

obv: 'America' rev: 'Ravenswood Ill / J. C. Cochran Arch'

obv: 'America' rev: -

obv: 'Ohio' rev: 'Ohio / Churly[?] + Clay'

embossed: 'Bedford Lewers & Co / 141, Strand, London'

obv: 'Milwaukee' rev: -

obv: 'Omaha' rev: 'Omaha Nev, [sic] / By Mendelsohne + Fisher'

obv: 'Kansas City USA' [sic]rev: 'Kansas City'

7 storey building, labelled 'Borden Block'.

obv: 'Baltimore' rev: 'Baltimore'

obv: 'St Paul USA' rev: 'Hodgson St[...] / St Paul / Minn'

obv: 'Minneapolis USA' rev: 'Minneapolis / Buffington'

obv: 'St Paul USA' rev: 'St Paul / Flanders Ar'

obv: 'Lumber exchange Minn.' rev: 'Minneapolis / Minn / Long + Kees'

San Diego, California: Hotel del Coronado, Coronado Beach, by Reid & Reid (mainly James W Reid), 1887-8 [Smith (3), pp 148-9] Credited with introducing the steel frame to the West Coast [Barrett, ref Architect and Engineer of California,November 1910, p 37]

Hotel del Coronado

Ravenswood, Illinois: All Saints Episcopal Church, 4550 N Hermitage Ave, by JC Cochran, 1883 [ref Payne, Sinkevitch, p 223]

Chicago: Kinsley Building, see no 27

London

Milwaukee: Michaud Block, 1885

Omaha, Nebraska OR Kansas City, Missouri

Chicago: Borden Block, West Randolph & Dearborn Sts, by Adler & Sullivan, 1879-80, demolished 1910 [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper, pp 22, 46]

Baltimore: Hutzler Brothers building

Chicago: Home Insurance Building, La Salle & Adams Sts, by W L B Jenney 1892, dem 1931. Turak, William Le Baron Jenney, pp 237-263

Minneapolis: Boston block, by Buffington, 1881-6.

St Paul, by Flanders [could be John J Flanders, but that he doesn't seem to have been in private practice prior to Kilburn's visit].

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Lumber Exchange, by Long & Kees

Drawing room with white joinery and furniture.

View from one room to the next through a rectangular opening, both with panelled dados and coffered ceilings

Bar with a projecting polygonal corner, and a sort of baldacchino.

Double height room with lounge seating, upper balcony, counter at rear - presumably reception area.

External view with complex massing, about 6 storeys high, giant conical corner pavilion.

Insipid interior with triple arcade across.

Church interior with a Mayan arch section, ornamental frieze and pseudo-hammer beams below.

Interior of what looks like a legislative chamber, with deep coved and panelled ceiling, rich plaster ornament, raked upper gallery, two concentric semicircles of desks & seats.

Three storey brick row with shop windows at ground floor, canted oriel bays with domes, decorative banked chimneys on façade, central plate reading ';...WN', and 'Dr. Shaw' on one window.

Four storey building with stilted arches and intricate Islamic relief decoration. Adjoining building is G. Jochem's Post Office Exchange

Three storey medievalising building with mainly Gothic arches and a central tower. friezes at gable height seem to show occupations, suggesting that this is an educational building

Three storey block with central entrance and flanking shops at ground floor, elegant sub-Romanesque detailing, labels '1885', 'Michaud Block'

Four storey block in rock-faced sub-Romanesque. Adjoining property is '... Notion Company. 405'

7 storey building, labelled 'Borden Block'.

5 storey Byzantine-Romanesque building, with a Moresque central arch, labelled 'Hutzler Brothers'.

Home Insurance building.

6 storey plus mansard corner block with pyramidal pavilion roofs at corners, labelled '1881' and 'Boston Block', apparently not quite complete, and with 'Buffington / Architect' across three windows.

modest 3 st block with a ground floor shop and at the top floor a shingle-hung cantilevered window bay.

10 st rock-faced block, labelled 'Lumber Exchange'.

Reid & Reid [partnership 1889-1932 of James M Reid (1851-1943) & Merritt J Reid (d 1932)] [Witheys, p 500].

F L Charnley OR Charnley & Clay [William Clay] [Lowe, p 188]

Adler & Sullivan [Dankmar Adler (1844-1900) & Louis Henri Sullivan (1856-1924)]

William le Baron Jenney (1832-1907) Chicago [Randall, pp 27-8 & passim; Witheys, pp 324-5; Condit, 'Jenney'; Turak, William Le Baron Jenney]

John J Flanders (1847-1914) St Paul, Minnesota [Witheys, p 213]

Long & Kees [Franklin B Long (1842-1913) & Frederick Kees (1852- [?])] [Smith, Plains States and Far West,p 379].

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‘1640’

'1815'

'2016' 'J.W. Taylor's Architectural Photographic Series, 146 La Salle Stree[t]' [added by hand: '151 Monroe St Chicago']

'1394' 'J.W. Taylor, Chicago, 151 Monroe St'

'4029'

'[..] Taylor, Chicago, 151 Monroe St' '2687'

'2297'

‘2119’

'1137'

'3077'

'4011'

'1706'

'560'

'2426'

'J.W.T 3023'

‘2413’

'701 Taylor / Photo'

obv: 'America' rev: -

obv: 'America'rev: -

obv: 'St Paul' rev: 'Miles & Johnson / St. Paul'

obv: 'America' rev: -

obv: 'Philadelphia' rev: 'Depot - Philadelphia'

obv: 'Goelet Cottage Newport U.S.A' rev: 'Goelet Cottage / Newport R.I.'

obv: 'Pittsburg [sic] - Bridge of Sighs City Hall' rev: 'Pittsburg Pa / Bridge of Sighs City Hall / By Richardson'

obv: 'America' rev: -

obv: 'Cotton Exchange New Orleans' rev: 'New Orleans / Cotton Exchange'

obv: 'America' rev: -

obv: 'Milwaukee U.S.A' rev: 'Milwaukee ' E T Nihr. E T Mix, Archt'

obv: 'Mills Buildings New York' rev: 'Mills Building / New York'

obv: 'Chicago' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: 'Chicago / Wilson and Marble' [plus Kilburn's stamp]

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / Burnham + Root'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / Wheelock + Clay Ar'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / Cobb + Frost Ar'

obv: 'Chicago' rev: 'Chicago / by Wilson + Marble'

obv: 'Chicago' [plus Kilburn's stamp]rev: 'Chicago / Burnham + Root' [plus Kilburn's stamp]

obv: 'Chicago'rev: 'Chicago / Peabody and Stearnes [sic]'

Chicago: Hotel Florence, 11111 S Forrestville Ave. Pullman, by SS Beman, 1881 [ref Payne, Sinkevitch, p 470]

St Paul, Minnesota: Casey block, possibly by Clarence Johnston [no Miles on record]

First Unitarian Church, Chestnut & Van Pelt Sts, by Frank Furness, 1883-6 (ref Thomas et al, p 246)

Newport, Rhode Island: Goelet Cottage.

Pittsburgh: Alleghany County Buildings, by H H Richardson, 1883-8

view of A school for Pullman, by S S Beman. Another view is in the Ryerson Library, Art Institute of Chicago, in the S.S.Beman Collection on Pullman, call # 2001.6, Portfolio 3 [information from David Swan, 2004].

New Orleans: Cotton Exchange, 1881

Douglas County Courthouse, Omaha, Nebraska (information from James Cravatt 2006)

Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul Railroad Depot, Michigan Ave, Milwaukee, by E T Mix, 1886 (Gurda p 138; Szczesny-Adams)

New York: Mills Building, by G B Post, 1881-3 [Weisman, p pp 461-2; Lewis & Morgan, p 41, references p 145]

Chicago: by Wilson and Marble

Chicago: by Wilson & Marble

Chicago: by Burnham & Root [cf Lewis & Morgan p 72]

Chicago: M D Wells house, by Wheelock & Clay, c 1889 See no 19.

Chicago: by Cobb & Frost

Chicago: by Wilson & Marble

Chicago: by Burnham & Root

Chicago: Lambert Tree house, by Peabody & Stearns, 1883-4 [Lewis & Morgan p 134]

4 st red brick, slightly French. block with three shops at ground floor

symmetrical complex composition of 2/3 storeys plus attic, ground floor verandah

3 storey sub-Romanesque block with a central entrance and a ground floor shop either side, labelled 'Casey' over the entrance.

Richardsonian Byzantine/ Romanesque square tower with a tight colonnaded rotunda and conical roof, attached to a church with a Romanesque wheel window.

Gutsy porch with stubby columns, foliated capitals, segmental arches.

A large and most uncottageonous house with a main wing of a two storeys plus an attic consisting of a long gable roof with six large dormer windows; an arcaded loggia type verandah, and a pointed dome pavilion and rear wing visible to one side.

View of the bridge with the gaol to the left and the court / administration buildig to the right, road surface unfinished.

Brick possible school building, 2 storeys with 3 storey centre and a quasi-tower with a saddleback roof.

4 storey corner building with mansard roof in a rich Baroque / Second Empire style, with caryatids, pedimental sculpture &c, labelled '1881' and 'Cotton Exchange'.

Rectangular building on a hill, 2 storeys plus basement, square colonnaded tower with dome above, suggestive of a legislative building or court house (neo-Romanesque church tower in background).

Symmetrical 2 storey brick Romanesque block with a sizeable central clocktower.

11 storey block in the form of a U, open to the street, but that the centre is filled for two levels with an arched entry and staircase.

Detail of a Byzanto-Romanesque entry porch to a rock faced apparently residential building.

Detail of an arched corner porch to a rock faced apparently residential building.

Detail of a gutsy entry porch with clustered colonette piers, to a rock faced apparently residential building.

Detail of a Franco-classical porch , to a Second Empire mansion.

3 storey brick row house with stone oriel, dresssings and entry staircase.

Residential entry porch to a brick building, recessed behind a semicircular arch with stone piers.

Entry porch to a random stone faced building, recessed behind a semicircular arch with a free form, almost Gaudian balustrade (influenced by the porch of Richardson's Trinity Rectory).

Façade and recessed entry porch to a three storey rock faced building, with some carved foliated details and a trabeated porch or verandah just visible on one side.

Solon Spencer Beman (1853-1914) [Witheys, pp 49-50; Jordy, p 70; Randall, p 360]

Clarence H Johnston (1859-1936) [Witheys, p 326].

Frank Furness (1839-1912) Philadelphia [Witheys, pp 226-7; Morrison, passim]

Henry Hobson Richardson (1838-1886) [Van Rensselaer, passim; Witheys, pp 508-510]

Solon Spencer Beman (1853-1914) [Witheys, pp 49-50; Jordy, p 70; Randall, p 360]

Mix, Edward Townsend

George Browne Post (1837-1913) [Witheys, pp 482-4; Weisman, passim]

Wilson & Marble [Horatio R Wilson (1857-1917) & Oliver W Marble] [Randall gives Wilson's birth date as 1858] [Randall, p 377; Witheys pp 392, 663]

Wheelock & Clay [Otis Leonard Wheelock (1816-c1886) & William Wilson Clay (1849-1926)] [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper, pp 63, 113; Randall, p 362; Witheys pp 125, 168]

Cobb & Frost [Henry Ives Cobb (1859-1931) & Charles Sumner Frost (1856-1931)] [Witheys, pp 128-9, 224]. [Condit, Rise of the Skyscraper,p 80]

Wilson & Marble [Horatio R Wilson (1857-1917) & Oliver W Marble] [Randall gives Wilson's birth date as 1858] [Randall, p 377; Witheys pp 392, 663]

Peabody & Stearns [partnership 1870-1917 of Robert Swain Peabody (1845-1917) & John Goddard Stearns (1843-1917] [Witheys pp 462-3, 568].

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'2160 / Taylor Rookery B + Root JH.....'

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obv: 'Blair Lodge Chicago'rev: 'Blair Lodge Detail / Chicago'

obv: 'Chicago'rev: 'Chicago'

obv: 'Chicago'rev: 'Chicago / Adler + Sullivan'

obv: 'Rookery Chicago'rev: 'Rookery Chig / Burnham + Root'

obv: 'Chicago'rev: 'Chicago / by Bates'

obv: 'St Louis'rev: 'St Louis / by Peabody + Stearnes [sic]'

obv: 'Chicago'rev: 'Chicago'

Blair lodge [Larned house], Lake Forest (30 miles north of Chicago), overlooking Lake Michigan , by W L B Jenney, demolished c 1913. Built by the railroad baron John Insley Blair for his granddaughter Emma, daughter of Charles Scribner (publisher) and wife of W C Larned (art critic and novelist). Illustrated in the Architectural Reviewer, I (1897), p 7, reproduced in Turak, p 192. Ref Paddock & Miller, Lake Forest; Turak, William Le Baron Jenney, pp 189-90.

Chicago

Chicago: St Cloud Dining Room, by Adler & Sullivan

Chicago: Rookery, by Burnham & Root

obv: 'Chicago'rev: 'Chicago / by Bates'

St Louis: by Peabody & Stearns. Could it be the St Louis Club Clubhouse, 1886-7 [ref Floyd & Holden]

Chicago: 1888

Re-entrant angle of a two storey house of light brick with a pseudo-half-timbered upper floor, and a polygonal glazed bay in the angle.

Front steps and basket arched piazza of a red brick Queen Anne building with a brick Ipswich window above.

3 storey building with 'Dining Room' on a basket arch at the top, and at the bottom a glazed shopfront with '1409 St. Cloud' 1409' above it and on the glass. Building of Little & Williams to the left, and Grand Union at 1411 to the right.

Close view of the upper part of the façade.

Glazed shop window of 'Gunther's', no 212 (possibly artist's materials?).

2 storey building with rock-faced round arched ground floor, recessed balconies above, and central octagonal turret, also a medallion containing an eagle at ground floor level, and above a panel with two bears flanking a coat of arms.

2 storey + attic pair of brick shops dated '1888', the corner one with a squat polygonal tower and conical roof, labelled 'teas' and 'coffees' on the windows; the second one labelled 'vegetables'.

2 storey brick building with one corner shop and another shop to each street; corner conical roofed turret, oriels to either street, brick façade with rock faced upper window lintels, semi-machiciolated cornice, canopy with '6100 Krueger & Schneider 6100 Medicines'.

William le Baron Jenney (1832-1907) Chicago [Randall, pp 27-8 & passim; Witheys, pp 324-5; Condit, 'Jenney'; Turak, William Le Baron Jenney]

William A Bates (1853-1922)

Peabody & Stearns [partnership 1870-1917 of Robert Swain Peabody (1845-1917) & John Goddard Stearns (1843-1917] [Witheys pp 462-3, 568].