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Midwest Modern
@JoshLipnik
Architecture, Art, and Design from the American Midwest | Photos by me unless noted otherwise
Jan 20, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The former Tetiever Ahavath Achim Anshe Sfard (1927) in Cleveland, OH. The synagogue was founded by Jewish immigrants from the small city of Tetiev, about 100 miles south of Kyiv in what is now Ukraine. Now home to NuVision Missionary Baptist Church. Image I love these old tiny neighborhood synagogues, this one is the former B’nai Zion in Detroit Image
Jun 30, 2022 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
American Seating Co. Factory (1888)
Grand Rapids, MI

Founded in 1886 as the Grand Rapids School Furniture Company, American Seating would grow to become one of the Grand Rapids’ most important furniture manufacturers and the city’s largest employer. ImageImageImageImage American Seating’s original and largest market was school furniture, and they cornered this market to such a degree that the company faced multiple antitrust lawsuits in the early 20th century. There is almost a 100% chance that you sat at an American Seating desk in school. ImageImageImageImage
Jun 29, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I’ve looked through hundreds of old architecture magazines and Kohler was really in a league of their own when it came to advertising ImageImageImageImage
Mar 19, 2020 • 5 tweets • 5 min read
Albert Kahn, Burroughs Adding Machine Company Manufacturing Plant (1939) Plymouth, MI Burroughs was founded in St. Louis in 1886 by William Seward Burroughs, originally the American Arithmometer Co. The company moved to Detroit in 1904 and changed its name a year later, quickly becoming the largest adding machine manufacturer in America.
Feb 3, 2020 • 83 tweets • 61 min read
Julius Shulman’s Hawkeye State:

A Photographic Tour of Midcentury Iowa


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The Masters Come to Iowa

***All photos by Julius Shulman unless noted otherwise***