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Portland, Oregon ~ August 7, 2010

Pioneer Square

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Drafts

New York ~ May 4, 2009
Library Walk outside the New York Public Library

Poet: Julia Alvarez

Sculptor: Gregg Lefevre, 1998

You can see another pic from this series of sidewalk reliefs on my Tapirgal's Daily Image blog here.

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Pirie Scott Peacock

Chicago ~ April 23, 2005

I love the animal art on this building in downtown Chicago. If the plaque I photographed a few minutes later is attached the same building as is adorned by the peacock and gryphons, the information is this:

Chicago Landmark

Carson Pirie Scott & Company Building
Louis H. Sullivan, architect
1899, 1903-1904
1906 addition by D.H. Burnham & Co.

The Carson Pirie Scott store ranks as one of the most important structures in early modern architecture. An example of 19th century modular construction, it also clearly expresses the period's philosophy about an ornamental architecture.

Designated a Chicago Landmark on November 5, 1970,
by the City of Council of Chicago,
Richard J. Daley, Mayor

Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks

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