JG - Postcard Past / Present Photo (Page 18)

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.

Jan 12, 2023 Copenhagen

Hotel Selandia, Vesterbro, Copenhagen

As a classic bit of Istedgade only a couple blocks from Copenhagen Central Station, I kind of expected this to be the straightforward Vesterbro story of a seedy hotel turned into a trendy one. It wasn't. Turns out that this building was also a longtime administrative office for DSB.

Jan 9, 2023 Copenhagen

Elephant Gate, New Carlsberg, Copenhagen

About as iconic as brewery architecture gets–this is the granite herd that inspired a beer. The Elephant Gate is the grand portal connecting Copenhagen’s New Carlsberg District to Valby.