Monastery, Sanctuary of our Sorrowful Mother, Portland, Oregon
Kind of an urban American cousin to the remote monasteries at Meteora and Mount Athos.
Municipal Stadium, Davenport, Iowa
Davenport, Iowa is home to one of the prettiest ballparks in the country, the Quad Cities River Bandits’ Modern Woodmen Park wedged between a rail line and the Mississippi River with a bridge looming over right field. Not that you’d necessarily know it from this postcard.
Lawson YMCA, Chicago
Once the crown jewel of the Chicago YMCA system, a landmark of gay life in the city, and an SRO that provided flexible housing for decades, today the Lawson House is an encouraging story of architectural and (more importantly) affordable housing preservation.
Portland City Hall, Oregon
Henry Hefty won the competition to design Portland’s City Hall and construction made it as far as the building foundation before the New City Hall Commission–newly formed by the Oregon state legislature to wrest control of the project away from the city–changed their minds.
Halsted Street Lift Bridge, Chicago
Chicago’s old Halsted Street Lift Bridge was the first modern vertical lift bridge in the world.