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Architecture

Architecture follows the formal, material, and authorial decisions that shape buildings, campuses, districts, and industrial sites across the library.

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Research In Architecture

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Louisville Water Tower and Pumping Station No. 1

Research Record

Updated 2026

Louisville Water Tower: After Restoration, Who Is the Landmark For?

United States Utility / Energy Infrastructure Adaptive Reuse

A restored riverfront landmark and Louisville Water’s decision to end paid rentals offer a concrete test of what public access means after adaptive reuse.

Place
Louisville Water Tower and Pumping Station No. 1
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Approximate
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6
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2026
Chain of Rocks Water Intake Towers, St. Louis

Research Record

Updated 2026

Chain of Rocks Intake Towers: Preservation Meets the Backup Water Supply

Midwest Utility / Energy Infrastructure Preserved

St. Louis’s river towers reveal a preservation question with operational stakes: what would it take to make historic infrastructure useful as a backup again?

Place
Chain of Rocks Water Intake Towers, St. Louis
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4
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2026
Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia

Research Record

Updated 2026

Fairmount Water Works: The Landscape Was Part of the Machine

Pennsylvania Utility / Energy Infrastructure Adaptive Reuse

Philadelphia’s celebrated riverfront waterworks links pumping technology, parkland, and pollution—and shows why preserving an elegant building cannot preserve a water source by itself.

Place
Fairmount Water Works, Philadelphia
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6
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2026
Water Works Park, Detroit

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Updated 2026

Detroit’s Water Works Park: A Lost Public Landscape Around a Working Utility

Detroit Utility / Energy Infrastructure Active

Detroit’s Water Works Park separates three histories too often collapsed into one: a vanished recreational landscape, surviving civic memory, and a continuing water-treatment function.

Place
Water Works Park, Detroit
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Approximate
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5
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2026
Pixy Theatre, Edinburgh

Research Record

Updated 2026

Pixy Theatre, Edinburgh

Indiana Architecture

A Masonic building’s performance spaces connect Edinburgh’s early social life with a new nonprofit reopening effort.

Place
Pixy Theatre, Edinburgh
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3
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2026
Crump Theatre, Columbus

Research Record

Updated 2026

Crump Theatre, Columbus

Indiana Architecture

Columbus’s historic theater is moving from volunteer stabilization toward a larger restoration and expansion program.

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Crump Theatre, Columbus
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7
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2026
Liberty Theater / Liedertafel Hall, Lawrenceburg

Research Record

Updated 2026

Liberty Theater / Liedertafel Hall, Lawrenceburg

Indiana Adaptive Reuse Architecture

A German musical society’s hall has returned to performance use through public investment and private operation.

Place
Liberty Theater / Liedertafel Hall, Lawrenceburg
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Approximate
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5
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2026
Historic Ford Hangar

Research Record

Updated 2026

Historic Ford Hangar, Lansing

Illinois Transportation Infrastructure Preserved

An aircraft hangar designed for Henry Ford is the focus of a new restoration campaign in the Chicago Southland.

Place
Historic Ford Hangar
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6
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2026
500 North Michigan Avenue

Research Record

Updated 2026

500 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago

Chicago Commercial Building Adaptive Reuse

The 24-story tower will keep ground-floor retail while vacant offices become housing and a new rooftop level changes the building's original profile.

Place
500 North Michigan Avenue
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Exact
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3
Updated
2026
Stone Medical Center

Research Record

Updated 2026

Stone Medical Center, Chicago

Chicago Campus / Institutional Endangered

A 28-story apartment tower will replace a labor and health-care building whose atrium and paired Brotherhood Monument sculptures gave the corner a distinctive public...

Place
Stone Medical Center
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Exact
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3
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2026
Ann Sather Building

Research Record

Updated 2026

Ann Sather Building, 909 West Belmont Avenue, Chicago

Chicago Commercial Building Demolished / Lost

The restaurant relocated, but the loss of its longtime building closes a distinct chapter in the commercial life surrounding the Belmont elevated station.

Place
Ann Sather Building
Coverage
Exact
Sources
3
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2026
Second Church of Christ, Scientist

Research Record

Updated 2026

Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago

Chicago Campus / Institutional Adaptive Reuse

The Pine Grove project preserves a monumental street presence while replacing the sanctuary, dome, roof, and most of the historic building behind it.

Place
Second Church of Christ, Scientist
Coverage
Exact
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3
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2026

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