Random Thoughts

Just some random thoughts stuck in the giant World Wide Web...

[jwalsh2me]

Someone tried to help paint

[jwalsh2me]

A Unicorns View

[jwalsh2me]

A Brewing Problem James Hamblin, theatlantic.com

What's the healthiest way to keep everyone caffeinated?

“I don't have one. They're kind of expensive to use,” John Sylvan told me frankly, of Keurig K-Cups, the single-serve brewing pods that have fundamentally changed the coffee experience in…

[themanonfive]

Pullman factory site c. 1915

[jwalsh2me]

100 likes!

[themanonfive]

The original McVickers Theater on Madison St. between Dearborn and State c. 1857

[themanonfive]

McKim, Meade & White’s Agriculture Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition (1893)

[bjgreenberg]

IBM Can’t Shrink Its Way To Greatness - InformationWeek

[jwalsh2me]

Hoping they get back in gear soon.

[themanonfive]

Aerial view of Fort Sheridan (looking southwest?) c. 1930

[themanonfive]

Fort Sheridan c. 1920

[jwalsh2me]

What!?!?

[jwalsh2me]

They have happy macchiato's in Louisville.

[jwalsh2me]

I better check the browser history!

[jwalsh2me]

Hmmm

[jwalsh2me]

Random Thoughts turned 4 today!

[themanonfive]

Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University in Evanston, 1910. The building was constructed in 1888 and moved in 1939. It is still active. 

[chicagogeek]

After the Carson Pirie Scott Department Store, architect Louis Sullivan’s career went into a long decline and he received few commissions. In his early fifties and down on his luck, the remainder of his work consisted primarily of a series of small bank and commercial buildings in obscure, out-of-the-way Midwestern towns. Today these commissions (nine in total) are collectively referred to as Sullivan’s “Jewel Boxes.” The largest is about 4,600 square feet, the smallest well under 1,500 square feet. None cost more than $125,000 to build.

In 1906, Sullivan accepted an offer to design a new headquarters for the National Farmers’ Bank in Owatonna, a small farming town 60 miles south of Minneapolis. Banker Carl Bennett wanted more than a prominent new building to house his family’s business. He wanted a work of art. Together their brilliant collaboration of patron and architect produced what many consider the finest small-town bank in America, the first of Sullivan’s “jewel boxes”. The building is bathed in a symphony of color, as Sullivan described it. Green and brown terra cotta panels and blue and gold glass mosaic bands contrast with the reddish brick walls and the red sandstone base that anchors the bank to its site, giving depositors a sense of security. Two arched stained glass windows designed by Louis J. Millet are mirrored on the interior by murals of dairy and harvest scenes by Oskar Gross. The lavish organic decorative elements, including four 18-foot-tall cast iron electroliers and teller window grilles, were designed by chief draftsman George Grant Elmslie and cast by Winslow Brothers Company (owned by William Winslow, for whom Frank Lloyd Wright designed an iconic house). Today this National Historic Landmark is a Wells Fargo Bank.

[jwalsh2me]

Very interesting.