Here's a Monday morning blast-from-the-past which shows that you can't save them all.
I stumbled upon this rare image of the Frank Lloyd Wright designed Stohr Arcade Building being dismantled in 1922 to make way for the today's CTA Red Line–Wilson station, located at 4600 N Broadway Ave.
According to William Allin Storrer's Frank Lloyd Wright Companion CD-ROM:
The Stohr Arcade was located at the Wilson Avenue Station of the Chicago elevated transit system. Most of it was under the "el" tracks - the structure incorporated stairs to the ticket booths and railway - but where the arcade ducked out from under the tracks, it rose to three stories. The main-level row of shops extended the predominantly horizontal motif from the three-tiered section. The second-level windows reveal the influence of one of the Froebel Gifts, that of rings and circular segments, three years before the famous Coonley Playhouse (S.174) windows.
Photo via Uptown Update.com
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