Neighborhood Teardown

This house on my block is scheduled for demolition. This type of teardown has become a common occurance in our community. Hopefully a tastefully designed home will rise from the wreckage of the old house. I am also departing from my traditional film based photography in favor of digital in order to be more timely in my postings.

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Location: City by the Lake, Illinois, United States

Just a regular guy wandering the many paths of life. I'm trying to document part of these travels through my photography and also express my creativity through woodworking and building things.

Monday, February 08, 2010

Stairway to nowhere

Any week, another floor. As we can see the second floor seems to have been taken down. I think they cut hole too big for the new skylight..........

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Saturday, January 30, 2010

The confusion grows

This weeks visit finds our house losing its roof. It appears the house is being knocked down by hand. Maybe they are going for the leave one wall up remodel. By remodeling only 90% of the house there are maybe some easier permit issues. Hmm...

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Sunday, January 24, 2010

The destruction begins

I am a little confused by this one. The windows have been chopped out and the interior has been gutted. Perhaps they are going for a gut rehab. I thought they were going to get a wrecking ball and just push it into the ground. I guess only time will tell what their intentions are.

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Sunday, January 03, 2010

New Teardown

This will be my latest case study for this year. I found this house slated for demolition. I am not sure of the owners intentions, but it looks like the wrecking ball is close at hand.

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Sunday, February 18, 2007

National Louis


National Louis college sold their property last year for a new development. I will try to chronicle some of the progress of this project. Here is a view of part of the old building going down.

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Baker School


I didn't realize that the Baker school also purchased part of the property besides the school itself. Imagine my surprise when this park was established for the school. It is really nice to see a large parcel of property going to open space. Way to go Baker!!!

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Sunday, September 18, 2005

September 18 ,2005


Kind of fell asleep at the wheel. The west house is all done on the outside . They are working on the landscaping and completing the interior.
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september 18


The east house is also progressing along well. From the outside, they both look like they are a the same point of completion.
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September 18


The garage is almost nicer than my house.
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September 18


Here is the rear of house. Nice size yard to spend your weekends maintaining.
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Thursday, July 07, 2005

july 7 2005


The west building is going along. The tyvek is on and they will brick it up soon.
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