Column: New book ‘Lost in America’ offers ghost stories of buildings in Chicago and across the country

The Dearborn Station Trainshed was torn down in 1976. From “Lost in America: Photographing the Last Days of Our Architectural Treasures” by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams. A building is not, of course, a living thing but buildings can die and a fascinating, indeed haunting, new book offers us a graveyard in black and white.

Many of their initial offerings had a strong Chicago focus but that has expanded. “Our first books are firmly Chicago books and some of our great photographers like,” Cahan told me. “But in time we began to explore issues that we felt were important to America, such as the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, slavery and the civil rights movement.”

Nickel’s photographs share this book’s pages with other HABS photographers, such as Stephen D. Schafer, who says, “If the buildings documented by HABS were people, you’d take them straight to a hospital. Instead, we push them straight into the grave.” “These are not all landmarks,” Cahan tells me. “But they are important buildings in American history and communities. They may not be the greatest architecture, but they each tell the story… of plantations and slave quarters, ballparks, music halls, steel mills.” And more.

The Granada Theatre in the Rogers Park neighborhood was torn down in 1989. From"Lost in America: Photographing the Last Days of Our Architectural Treasures" by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams. Interior of the Old Federal Building , torn down in 1961. From"Lost in America: Photographing the Last Days of Our Architectural Treasures" by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams.

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