JG - Postcard Past / Present Photo (Page 15)

Jan 24, 2023 Copenhagen

Enghave Plads with Christ Church, Vesterbro, Copenhagen

This is one where the gap between the postcard and the present-day photo hides something big - a whole-ass metro station, which was built under Enghave Plads in the 2010s as part of Copenhagen Metro’s Circle Line.

Jan 22, 2023 Chicago From the archive

Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral, Chicago

A terrific bit of Orthodox vernacular architecture stashed on a Chicago side street, Holy Trinity was designed by Louis Sullivan of all people.

Jan 19, 2023 Quad Cities Iowa

Davenport City Hall, Iowa

Designed by Iowa architect John W. Ross and completed in 1896, Davenport's Richardsonian Romanesque-style City Hall is one of a handful in the US to host a Socialist administration, after they swept to power in the 1920 municipal elections.

Jan 17, 2023 Quad Cities Iowa

Roller Dam across the Mississippi River between Davenport, Iowa and Rock Island, Ill.

The first dam conceived as part of the massive engineering project that tamed the Upper Mississippi River, Dam No. 15 between Davenport and Rock Island is the longest roller dam in the world. Not that that’s saying a whole lot.

Jan 15, 2023 Chicago From the archive

Holy Family Academy, Chicago

It looks almost depilated after losing all its ornamentation - like a face with no eyebrows - but after more than 125 years as a school, the present-day Near North Montessori school must have great bones.