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The James Charnley Residence, also known as the Charnley-Persky House, is a historic house museum at 1365 North Astor Street in the near northside Gold Coast neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Designed in 1891 and completed in 1892, it is one of the few surviving residential works of Adler & Sullivan .
The museum was founded in 1988 in Chicago, moved to Schaumburg, Illinois [1] in 1998, and to Galena, Illinois in 2004. [2] The museum in Galena is located in a former brewery building (Fulton Brewery, later Galena Brewery, Eulberg & Sons). [3] In Schaumburg, the museum occupied an old barn at 190 S. Roselle Rd., before the village evicted it in ...
The museum is housed within the historic Samuel M. Nickerson House, the 1883 residence of a wealthy Chicago banker. [2] Although the mansion has been restored, the Driehaus Museum does not re-create the Nickerson period but rather broadly interprets and displays the prevailing design, architecture, and decorating tastes of Gilded Age America ...
The Design Pack is a Cards Against Humanity expansion pack that includes 30 illustrated cards that interpret George Carlin's infamous 1972 monologue, "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television." [63] All proceeds from the Design Pack benefit the Design Museum of Chicago, with sales surpassing $130,000 in its first few days on the market. [64]
Brininstool + Lynch, Ltd. is a Chicago-based architecture firm named for partners David Brininstool and Brad Lynch.Founded in 1989, the 33-person firm offers architecture, planning, interior and product design services. [1]
Daprato Rigali Studios (formerly Daprato Statuary Company) is a nationally-recognized interior restoration and renovation company in Chicago. [1] It was founded in 1860 [ 2 ] by the Daprato brothers, Italian immigrants from the town of Barga .
The house is described as the oldest surviving house in Chicago, [4] although part of the Noble-Seymour-Crippen House in the Norwood Park neighborhood was built in 1833. (However, Norwood Park was not annexed to Chicago until 1893.) [5] The Clarke-Ford House was designated a Chicago Landmark on October 14, 1970. [6]
The design simultaneously looks forward with advanced architectural tectonics (of the time) and back to recapture the grandeur of large public spaces. Visitors to the Thompson Center's interior can see all 17 floors layered partway around the building's immense sky-lit atrium. The open-plan offices on each floor are supposed to carry the ...