Bldg. 51 Museum Collection
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original overiszed early 1870s faceted cast iron keystone salvaged from theodore karl's post-fire conrad seipp building -
rare early william shaw photographic reprint of w.d. kerfoot's real estate wood shanty constructed shortly after the great chicago fire of 1871 -
rare museum-quality 1898-99 cast bronze louis h. sullivan-designed bayard-condict building office door letters mailslot -
museum-quality late 19th or early 20th century j.w. taylor oversized photographic albumen print of cobb and frost's owings building (1890) -
original 1950s oversized richard nickel photographic print of frank lloyd wright's price tower -
two pre-chicago fire 1860s common bricks from demolished historically important downtown chicago commerical buildings -
original excavated 1871 great chicago fire building fragment in the form of fused stone from facade -
original sullivanesque painted exterior staff panel salvaged from william wells's edward h. graham residence -
rare villeroy boch mettlach polychromatic encaustic floor tiles salvaged in the mid-1970s from adler and sullivan's wainwright building first floor lobby -
1950s original chicago speedway wrecking and excavating company matchbook -
group of early 20th century kaufamnn and fabry silver gelatin prints of chicago buildings, boats, and bridges -
rare 1960 skidmore, owings, and merrill-designed stainless steel chicago architectural landmarks building plaque for william le baron jenney's leiter building -
rare nickel-plated salvaged chicago late 19th century basin tap bathroom or lavatory double cock "hot" and "cold" faucets handles comprised of cast brass with diminutive dish and circular rosettes -
original louis h. sullivan-designed monogrammed polychromed plaster panel salvaged from 1894 chicago stock exchange trading room in 1972 -
original and intact 1874 chicago terra cotta company extrerior rondel salvaged from william le baron jenney's starkweather building -
rare original louis h. sullivan-designed 1895-96 cast iron guaranty building window sash pull fabricated by yale and towne -
original frost and granger-designed polychromed sullivanesque style cast plast border panel from adler and sullivan's chicago stock exchange -
photographic images of bertrand goldberg's marina city taken before, during, and after it's completion in 1968 -
two original 1888 john wellborn root-designed rookery building interior office doorknobs with bower-barff finish -
original 1902 frank lloyd wright-designed painted staff plaster dana house "sumac pattern" exterior frieze fragment -
original museum quality 1896 copper-plated ornamental cast iron interior guaranty building staircase baluster -
rare original 1899 louis h. sullivan-designed cast iron exterior gage building storefront frieze panel -
1970s original hard to find milwaukee art center exhibition poster titled "an american architecture: its roots, growth, and horizons" -
original 1850s interior door surface or rimlock salvaged from carter and bauer's old saint patrick's church in chicago