rust belt roadtrip

folk modernism in brick jonas mulokas, holy cross lithuanian rc church, dayton, oh (1963-65)

I can’t believe ohio is real

municipal brutalism bloom and sedden, city hall, newark, oh (1967)

sullivan never misses louis sullivan, home building association bank, newark, oh (1914)

a bank so grand the architect signed it louis sullivan, home building association bank, newark, oh (1914)

Demolishing City Methodist Church in Gary, Indiana, would be a major mistake By Gavin Moulton, a University of Notre Dame doctoral student in history: www.archpaper.com/2026/09/demo...

what if we moved to wheeling and restored these courtyard apartments….

arches of downtown wheeling

read me in @archpaper.com on why gary shouldn't demolish america's most famous ruin

the palace of versailles croatian hall, versailles, pa (1936)

sunset on polish hill

all these years, and still the most beautiful bus I’ve ever seen

ukrainian village on film

church of the slovak rail car workers joseph molitor, ss. cyril and methodius church, chicago, il (1915)

city of steel som, inland steel building, chicago, il (1956-58)

can you tell there was a sale on green paint? st. stanislaus kostka polish rc church, michigan city, in (1916-26)

the brick facades of manistee, michigan

who’s your rust belt crush? 👀🏭

peak 80s design from the lake placid olympics

update: the ice chapel at notre dame has stained glass

rust belt snowtrip

the most beautiful grave in warsaw jerzy nowosielski, grave of rev. jerzy klinger, orthodox cemetery, warsaw, pl (1978)

Happening now, Gavin Moulton presents his paper "The Slavic Church System: The Architecture and Political Economy of Slavic Churches in Industrial America" at our Eastern European Catholicism in America panel. #ACHA26 #AHA26 @historians.org @aschurchhistory.bsky.social

sgrafitto patterns of warsaw pt. ii

Former Jackson Storage & Moving Co of La Grange, IL -- you in danger, girl. AGAIN. Thought saved, this building is again up for demo, & this time a reprieve will not be coming. Jackson was rolling in dough by the 20s, & hired warehouse king John Kingsley to modernize this older building in 1924.

sgrafitto patterns in warsaw

really into these polish folk nouveau patterns

this church goes insanely hard mary queen of poland, lublin, pl (1981-87)

coastal corbusier adolfo de pertis, church of the rosary, capo di sorrento, it (1971-72)

Love the Catholic Social Teaching window at St. John’s in Utica, featuring Pope Leo XIII holding Rerum Novarum, which talks about the right of workers to form unions. At the the bottom are workers of various kinds and in the middle are union members and management reaching an accord.

eclipse in a concrete sky church of s. bernardo alle termi, rome, it (1598-1600)

rome lately

metro systems built from scratch in italy since 1990: naples, turin, brescia, catania

a church sculpted from light angelo mangiarotti and bruno morassutti, n.s. della misericordia, milan, it (1956-57)

losing my marbles in rome

borromini go brrr

the nowa huta of rome—quartiere don bosco

croatian mosaics in rome jozo kljaković, pontifical croatian college mosaics, rome, it (ca. 1940s)

concrete sanctuary luigi figini e gino pollini, ss. giovanni e paolo, milan, it (1964-68)

blue buildings of milan

ceilings of the villa d’este

st. joseph covering the world in steel frank vittor, homestead, pa (1966)

the masterpieces of ivan meštrović in rome

the masterpieces of ivan meštrović in rome

vestiges of belle époque milan