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Here is a postcard view of the building pre-remodeling

Here is another a few years later.

Here is another.

Here is a postcard view of the Oriental.

Here is a postcard view.

Here is a postcard with the marquee partly visible.

Here is another postcard view

Here is a postcard view of the Majestic building.

Here is the Uptown Borders/Goldblatts/Loren Miller, across from the riviera, in its original form as a bank. Note that the windows didn’t go as low and there was a pediment that was not replaced in the restoration. Also a balustrade along the top.

Today’s was a trip to the Harold Washington library, to use the Art Institute’s Avery Index. I was looking to see if there was anything on the Adelphi, Pickwick, and Esquire, (I copied beautiful photos of all three,) and while I was waiting for more journals to be pulled I thought i’d look up the renovation architect’s name in the Tribune archives. So that’s how. I had the name before, for the Adelphi, but I guess it never occurred to me to look.

The Portage’s 1940 modernization was by Mark D. Kalischer, who also remodeled the Adelphi and Harper (Hyde Park)

The 1938 art deco remodel, costing $30,000, was carried out by architect Mark D. Kalischer, who also did remodels at the Adelphi and Portage, as well as the Drake Bowl.