all these years, and still the most beautiful bus I’ve ever seen
rust belt roadtrip
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architecture + history // phd candidate researching the slavic midwest
when ade bethune was just 23, she worked with a pro-union priest south of pittsburgh and unemployed steelworkers to design a church for the catholic proletariat during the depression
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)
my new article on the clairton steelworkers who designed and built a church from scraps as they organized the first steel union in the country
update: the ice chapel at notre dame has stained glass
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
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.
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)
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)
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)
