BLACK BRICK, BABY

Tim thinks this Modernist building in Granite City was designed by Harris Armstrong. The building was once a bank and is now the HQ for Granite City Steel. Part of the old bank interior has a bank of marble teller windows with a steel rail a la Mondrian. There's three little windows with chunks of Dalle glass.

The bank entrance has a modest steel slab sculpture in the front corner and enameled steel boomerang art on the interior wall (photos will follow if I get in later this week).

While we were looking in various windows a security guard pulled up and shooed us. The only information I culled from him was that all the steel used in the building had been produced at the Granite City Mill.


Here's Tim on the side of the building below enameled blue steel panels.



Full view of the building from the back:



Elevator tower with geometric design on the brick face:



Black brick with yellow flecks:

ABANDONED MAIN STREET GRANITE CITY

HUGE EGG AND DART - BPW

Brannon and Chippewa

PEBBLES IN MORTAR

DO NOT SPIT ON SIDEWALK

Turn of the century brick requesting no spitting due to the spread of tuberculosis

BRICK HOUSE GRANITE CITY

GRANITE CITY

Paved Street

With Beau's Paw

ROGER AND HUMPHREY

That's Teresa sitting on the chair

VARIOUS VALUES OF GLAZED GREEN BRICKS

TOILET CRANE - JASOOM'S ON GRAND (RIP)

BENTON PARK WEST

DUCK HEAD DOWN SPOUT

This is on my block. Eat your heart out.

SPONGE BRICK

I love that spinach color brick. Behold the various muted colors!

HOMES ON 41-42 CONNECTICUT STREET

DAMAGED LIMESTONE

Pollution and acid rain is slowly corroding the limestone in TGS.

SOOT ON BRICK?

I doubt the black on these bricks is original but it's served to enhance the three dimensional face. I also relish the pebbles in the mortar.
WAVE BRICK

What the hell happened on this building? Located on the corner of 41 Connecticut and Bent, the smaller 'turret' is dwarfed by the massive turret on the West side of the building.




UNBALANCED TURRETS

THE FOUR CORNERS ON JUNIATA AND OAK HILL

I am charmed by this corner: three building with iron columns that bear the weight of the brick that are all different sizes. I love those columns. On the last corner is Horace Mann elementary school.