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Adolf Schmidt House

Adolf Schmidt House (Burrowes Hall), 6331-33 N. Sheridan Road, Edgewater, Chicago, IL; Completed 1916, George Washington Maher, architect

2013, granted City of Chicago Landmark status as part of the Sheridan Road Mansions District

In my previous posts about architect George Washington Maher, I completely overlooked this stunning N. Sheridan Rd. example of early-20th-century prairie style, one of only a handful of North Sheridan private mansions to survive destruction. The house is owned by Loyola University, and now named Burrowes Hall.

Built in 1916, this Prairie-style house was designed by George W. Maher for Adolf Schmidt, president of the Columbian Colortype Company. The house is clad in buff roman brick with stone trim, a hipped roof with wide overhanging eaves, one-over-one windows, Sullivanesque ornament, corner pilasters, engaged stone columns flanked by windows on the second floor, and a corner entrance porch with a rooftop urn and arched openings. The building was designated a Chicago Landmark in 2013, and today serves as administrative offices for Loyola University. Wikimedia Commons

The distinctive yellow brick exterior of the house has since earned the building the name "Yellow House."

Cast ornament details of the facade

The lotus flower motif employed by Maher throughout the structure is evident in the vintage photo of a stained-glass window (right), as well as the column capitals above.

SOURCES:

Bldg. 51 Museum, Exterior Photographic Survey

Loyola University Chicago, "Yellow House"

Sheridan Road Mansions [PDF]

Wikimedia Commons

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The Pay phone for students at Loyola University in 1972

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Loyola University Chicago Ramblers Volleyball

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Midsummer at Loyola.

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Ascetism, Will and the 8 of Swords

I have been meditating on the 8 of Swords, as I mentioned in a previous article. While also reading about the question of Will, in spiritual, magical, and theological contexts, I keep finding the same rule. Will requires the reduction of options and possibilities. In the Spiritual Exercises of Loyola, in the Rule of Saint Benedict, or even in military life, there is always a surrender of personal will to a method, a rule, a spiritual guide, or a superior. This always comes with a strong mental or physical training, turning the person into an ascetic in the original sense of the word, an athlete of the spirit.

The 8 of Swords is a minor arcana in the mental and rational plane. Its decan is Jupiter in Gemini. So we have the planet of expansion, which is hot and moist, in a sign that is also hot and moist. The result is excessive. Jupiter loves to expand everything it touches and, in mutable Gemini, that expansion becomes a flood of options. The mind multiplies paths endlessly, unable to focus.

All classical methods aim to reduce those inner frictions. The vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience, for example, are meant to free the one who accepts them. The paradox is fewer choices bring more freedom. It is the exact opposite of what modernity teaches, where more options = more happiness.

The 8 of Swords is a card of anti-asceticism, a mind trapped by excess. When it appears, its message is simple: Do as the ancient athlete did. Narrow your focus, reduce the noise, and move forward.

More at The Mirror of Sienna.

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