JG - Postcard Past / Present Photo (Page 14)

Mar 10, 2023 Iowa Quad Cities

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.

Mar 6, 2023 Quad Cities Iowa

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.

Feb 23, 2023 Quad Cities Iowa

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.

Feb 21, 2023 Copenhagen

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.

Feb 14, 2023 Copenhagen

Søpavillonen, Copenhagen

Originally built as a clubhouse for Copenhagen’s Ice Skating Association in 1894, who’d skate on the frozen Peblinge Sø, the Søpavillon is one where I wish it would’ve been disassembled and moved elsewhere - there were once plans to replace it with a public swimming hall designed by Jørn Utzon.