Milwaukee Avenue, North of Division Street, Chicago
Raise your hand if you knew that there used to be a whole-ass building on Chicago’s Polish Triangle (clearly, not me, although I guess it’s obvious in retrospect).
First Baptist Church, Jackson, Michigan
Handsome and straightforward, Jackson’s First Baptist is the kind of workhorse brick church that you can find in almost every town across Michigan and the broader Midwest.
Regeneration Relief, DuSable Bridge, Chicago
Sculptor Henry Hering’s Regeneration is one of four relief sculptures installed in 1928 on the tender houses of the DuSable Bridge, paid for by the B.F. Ferguson Monument Fund–a unique Chicago civic sculpture endowment.
17th Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago
Chicago has filled in around it (...and the hotel next door filled in its balconies), but Harry Weese’s modernist Seventeenth Church of Christ Scientist, wedged into an oddly-shaped little lot, still looks as simultaneously ancient and futuristic as the day it opened in 1968.
Freeport Post Office, Freeport, Illinois
Freeport's federal building & post office was a cute mini Beaux Arts rectangle when it opened in 1903.