JG - Postcard Past / Present Photo (Page 11)

Sep 1, 2023 Iowa Illinois Quad Cities

Government Bridge between Davenport, Iowa and Rock Island, Illinois

The spiritual heir to the first railroad bridge to cross the Mississippi River, this is actually the fourth bridge connecting Davenport to Rock Island’s Arsenal Island.

Aug 20, 2023 Chicago Illinois From the archive

Richter's Food Products, 1040 W. Randolph, Chicago

Built as an exuberant Art Deco sausage factory in 1931, the Richter's Food Products Building in West Loop is an illuminating stand-in for the last 90 years of the neighborhood.

Aug 9, 2023 Copenhagen

Gyldenløvesgade and Dannerhuset, Copenhagen

Gyldenløvesgade has changed remarkably little in the last 115 years or so–but that lack of visible change obscures a pretty wild story. That brick Neo-Renaissance building on the left with the eyecatching gables? Super interesting, it turns out.

Aug 3, 2023 Copenhagen

SAS Royal Hotel, Copenhagen

It’s one of the first high-rises in central Copenhagen, a gesamtkunstwerk designed by one of Denmark’s most famous architects, but the irony of the SAS Royal Hotel is that only the least notable part of the building–its architecture–survives unchanged.

Jul 27, 2023 Chicago Illinois From the archive

Exchange Elevated Station, Union Stockyards, Chicago

The old Exchange Building at Chicago’s Union Stockyards and the Exchange Station on the Stockyards Branch of the L. Once the brains (the Exchange) and the veins (the L) of the world’s brawniest slaughterhouse district, it's now a random intersection in an industrial park.