Soldiers & Sailors Monument, Jackson, Michigan
This Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Michigan is actually Lorado Taft's second version of Defense of the Flag.
Zion Lutheran Church / St. Stephenson MB Church, Chicago
Immigrant flows, urban renewal, white flight, religious transition, jazz, schisms, CHA failures, demolition by neglect, dithering billionaires, sportswashing, promises made and promises broken.
St. Columbkille, Chicago
If you’ve ever thought the intersection of Grand and Paulina felt a little off…it’s because there’s a whole church missing.
Monastery, Sanctuary of our Sorrowful Mother, Portland, Oregon
Kind of an urban American cousin to the remote monasteries at Meteora and Mount Athos.
Municipal Stadium, Davenport, Iowa
Davenport, Iowa is home to one of the prettiest ballparks in the country, the Quad Cities River Bandits’ Modern Woodmen Park wedged between a rail line and the Mississippi River with a bridge looming over right field. Not that you’d necessarily know it from this postcard.