George Cleveland Hall Branch Library, Chicago
The enigmatic octagon atop the George Cleveland Hall Branch of the Chicago Public Library caps one of the most important libraries in the city.
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Davenport, Iowa
When the Irish community that gave Davenport’s Cork Hill its name outgrew their first church on this site, they hired (who else?) the Midwest’s preeminent Irish-American ecclesiastical architect to design the replacement, the Cork-born James J. Egan.
Davenport Public Library, Iowa
Designed by Edward Durell Stone, the architect’s only building in Iowa, this New Formalist version of the Davenport Public Library replaced a neoclassical Carnegie Library built on this site in 1904.
First Presbyterian Church, Davenport, Iowa
Jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke’s childhood church, Davenport’s First Presbyterian holds an annual jazz liturgy in honor of Bix. The building itself is an impressive example of Richardsonian Romanesque, built in 1899 and designed by C.E. Gottschalk & John Grant Beadle.
St. Pauls Kirken with Nyboder, Copenhagen
A rare one where the church came centuries after the neighborhood around it - Nyboder is one of Copenhagen’s most unique neighborhoods, originally built in the 1630s to house the seamen who comprised a new permanent Danish navy, rather than the seasonal levies of the past.