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CTA tracks, Evanston
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View of a train approaching along the at-grade tracks (now Purple Line), just north of the Central CTA station in Evanston. The trestle bridge over the North Shore Channel is in the distance.
Date:
1971
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Howard Street at Clark
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View west along West Howard Street from west of the CTA Howard station looking towards the intersection with North Clark Street and overpass for what is now the Metra train tracks. Small businesses line the street and an advertisement for the North Shore National Bank is painted on the side wall of the building adjacent to the parking lot in the foreground. There is an office building on the far left (1791 West Howard Street).
Date:
1975
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Parking lot, Benson Avenue at Clark Street, Evanston
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View looking northeast, of a parking lot situated at the northeast corner of the intersection of Benson Avenue and Clark Street in Evanston.
Date:
circa 1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Hinman Avenue, Evanston
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View looking northeast along Hinman Avenue from north of Grove Street. The Georgian (422 Davis Street) is the large building with the blue entrance awning near the center of the image.
Date:
circa 1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Elmwood Avenue, Evanston
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View looking northeast along Elmwood Avenue towards the intersection with Davis Street. The embankment for the Metra train tracks is at the right.
Date:
circa 1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Fountain Square Building, Evanston
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View of the Fountain Square Building (1600 Orrington Avenue), looking northeast across Davis Street from the intersection with Sherman Avenue. The building rises behind the plaza where the fountains are located.
Date:
circa 1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Houses, Emerson Street, Evanston
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Houses on the north side of Emerson Street, just east of the intersection with Oak Avenue. 1103 Emerson is at the left.
Date:
circa 1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Chicago and North Western Railroad tracks, Evanston
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View along the Chicago and North Western Railroad tracks, from south of Church Street.
Date:
circa 1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
CTA elevated tracks north of Howard station
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View looking north along Chicago Avenue towards the viaduct for the CTA elevated tracks (now part of the Purple Line). The east wall of the building at 222 Chicago Avenue (Evanston) is visible at the far left.
Date:
1971
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Davis CTA station, Evanston
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View looking northwest across Benson Avenue towards the Davis CTA station.
Date:
circa 1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Wieboldt's Department Store, Evanston
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View east along Church Street from the intersection with Oak Avenue. Wieboldt's department store is on the left.
Date:
circa 1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Evanston Day Nursery, Evanston
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View of the Evanston Day Nursery, in a nineteenth century house at 1835 Grant Street.
Date:
1968
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Marshall Field's store, Evanston
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View of the Marshall Field's department store (807 Church Street), looking northwest across the intersection of Church Street and Sherman Avenue. The Varsity Theatre is visible on the right.
Date:
1984
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Area near railroad station, Evanston
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View looking northwest from the railroad embankment near the former Railroad Avenue, north of Davis Street and east of Maple Avenue. The Chicago and North Western railroad station is partially visible at the left. Businesses along Church Street, including a Dominick's grocery store, are visible in the center of the image.
Date:
circa 1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Engelhart Hall, Northwestern University
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View of the Frank C. Engelhart Graduate Residence Hall (1915 Maple Avenue), at the northeast corner of Maple Avenue and Emerson Street.
Date:
1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Sherman Avenue shops, Evanston
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View of shoe stores located in a two-story commercial building on the east side of Sherman Avenue south of Church Street in Evanston. A children's shoe store, the Little Chick Shoe Shop, (1629 Sherman Avenue) is on the right. To its left is the Florsheim Thayer McNeil shoe store.
Date:
1979
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
"The Main", Chicago Avenue, Evanston
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View looking northeast across Chicago Avenue at "The Main", a two-story building with ground-level businesses and shops, and office space above. The building was at the time home to the music venue Amazinggrace, and the restaurant The Main Cafe (835 Chicago Avenue). On the second story above the restaurant, a large banner proclaims "Congressman Mikva!" The building, demolished in 2007, formerly stood on Chicago Avenue at the southeast corner of the intersection with Main Street in Evanston.
Date:
1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Asbury Avenue, Evanston
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View northeast along Asbury Avenue from just south of the intersection with Crain Street. The white painted nineteenth-century Italianate house at the left is 1124 Asbury Avenue. The intersection with Crain Street is partially visible at the far right.
Date:
1971
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Benson Avenue, Evanston
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View looking north along Benson Avenue towards Emerson Street, from the intersection with Church Street. A raised embankment for the CTA tracks is at the left, with adjacent on-street parking along Benson Avenue. The tower of the Second Baptist Church (1717 Benson Avenue) is visible at the right.
Date:
circa 1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Church Street near Maple Avenue, Evanston
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View looking northwest from a parking lot north of Davis Street at the former Railroad Avenue towards of the rear of a department store and shops along Church Street. A Chicago and North Western railroad station and elevated tracks are at the left.
Date:
circa 1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
CTA elevated tracks, Evanston
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View of a CTA train running along the track (now Purple Line) atop a raised berm in Evanston. A concrete wall borders the sidewalk.
Date:
1971
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Area west of the Howard CTA station
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View of mixed commercial and residential-use land and vacant lots west of the CTA Howard station.
Date:
1975
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Evanston's Central Business District
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Hand-drawn map by C. William Brubaker showing the location of an underutilized triangle of property in Evanston's Central Business District.
Date:
circa 1980
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Hinman Avenue apartment buildings, Evanston
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View of apartment buildings along Hinman Avenue, north of Grove Street and Raymond Park. Part of 1500 Hinman Avenue (now a co-op) is visible in the foreground at the left.
Date:
1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
House, Asbury Avenue, Evanston
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View of a white painted nineteenth-century Italianate house at 1124 Asbury Avenue in Evanston.
Date:
1971
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Evanston skyline from train embankment
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View looking northeast over Church Street from the Chicago and North Western Railroad tracks (now Metra tracks). The Second Baptist Church (1717 Benson Avenue) is in the distance on the left, and the top part of the Marshall Field's department store at 807 Church Street is on the right. The CTA Purple line tracks run across the center of the image, and part of a Dominick's grocery store parking lot is in front of the embankment at the far left.
Date:
circa 1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
CTA tracks and viaduct, Evanston
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View northwest across the intersection of Greenwood Street and Sherman Avenue towards the CTA tracks (now Purple Line) running along a raised berm. Greenwood Street runs under the viaduct.
Date:
1971
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Houses, Evanston
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View in winter of single-family houses along a residential street in northwest Evanston.
Date:
1972
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Grove Street at Chicago Avenue, Evanston
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View looking northwest from that corner of Raymond Park. The building on the left with the colonnaded portico (1490 Chicago Avenue) is the First Church of Christ Scientist. The apartment buildings on the right face Grove Street. The American Hospital Supply Corporation building (1560 Sherman Avenue) is visible under construction in the distance.
Date:
1976; 1912 (First Church of Christ Scientist)
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Fountain Square Building, Evanston
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View of the Fountain Square Building (1600 Orrington Avenue), looking north across Davis Street between Sherman Avenue and Orrington Avenue. The building rises behind the plaza where the fountains are located.
Date:
1984
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Chicago Avenue, Evanston
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View looking north along Chicago Avenue from just south of the intersection with Lake Street. The modernist high-rise at the far left is at 1420 Chicago Avenue. The apartment building to its immediate right is 1426 Chicago Avenue. The spire of Lake Street Church of Evanston is visible near the center of the image, and part of the First Presbyterian Church of Evanston is on the right.
Date:
circa 1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Davis Street, Evanston
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View east along Davis Street from the intersection with Maple Avenue. A train travels along the elevated Chicago and North Western railroad tracks, just past the intersection with Maple. Orrington Plaza (1603 Orrington Avenue), a high-rise office building, is behind the tracks.
Date:
circa 1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Sherman Avenue, Evanston
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View looking north along Sherman Avenue from south of the intersection with Grove Street. The American Hospital Supply Corporation building is under construction at the northwest corner of Sherman and Grove (1560 Sherman Avenue).
Date:
1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Green Bay Road near Foster Street, Evanston
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View of a Texaco gas station on Green Bay Road near Foster Street. A train embankment runs behind that, and an industrial structure belonging to The Evanston Fuel and Material Company is behind the train embankment.
Date:
circa 1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Church Street and Maple Avenue, Evanston
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View northeast from the intersection of Church Street and Maple Avenue. A Dominick's grocery store and its parking lot occupies the northeast corner of this intersection. Behind this, a CTA train travels along the raised embankment. The tower of the Second Baptist Church is visible behind the train embankment.
Date:
circa 1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
CTA elevated tracks, Evanston
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View looking along the tracks (now Purple Line) near the Davis CTA station in Evanston. Part of the top of the Evanston Marshall Fields store is visible at the far right.
Date:
1971
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Sherman Avenue, Evanston
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View north along Sherman Avenue from the intersection with Church Street. A Marshall Field's department store is on the left; the Varsity Theatre is next to it.
Date:
circa 1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Development proposal for Evanston's Central Business District
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Hand-drawn sketch by C. William Brubaker illustrating a development proposal for Evanston's Central Business District triangle. The proposal includes high-rise development with living and working space, access to transportation, and parking.
Date:
circa 1980
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Charles Gates Dawes House, Evanston
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View of the Dawes House located at 225 Greenwood Street, Evanston.
Date:
1975
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Emerson Street, Evanston
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View looking east along Emerson Street from the intersection with East Railroad Avenue. Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal Church is visible on the left, and a number of houses and apartment buildings are farther in the distance.
Date:
circa 1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
CTA Howard Street train yards
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View southeast of the CTA tracks (now Purple Line) and the train yard north of the Howard station. A couple cars of the Skokie Swift train (with light green tops) are at the far left. The top of the sign for the Howard Theater (1615-43 West Howard Street) is visible against the sky at the far right.
Date:
1971
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Greenwood Street at Chicago Avenue, Evanston
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View looking west along Greenwood Street from the intersection with Chicago Avenue. The 1400 Chicago Avenue Apartments are at the right. The viaduct for the CTA elevated tracks (now part of the Purple Line) is in the distance.
Date:
1971
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Evanston Day Nursery, Evanston
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View of the Evanston Day Nursery at its original location at 1515 Wesley Avenue.
Date:
1956
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Kroch's & Brentano's bookstore, Evanston
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View along the sidewalk on the east side of Sherman Avenue, north of Church Street, with a Kroch's & Brentano's bookstore (1723 Sherman Avenue, Evanston) in the white brick building.
Date:
1979
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Small businesses, Chicago Avenue, Evanston
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View looking south along the west side of Chicago Avenue, north of Dempster Street in Evanston. Ground level shops and businesses include Ken's barber shop, Vogue Beauty Salon, and Dave's Down To Earth Rock Shop. Each shop has flower boxes installed in front of their storefront windows.
Date:
1980
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
State National Bank Building, Evanston
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View of the 22-story State National Bank Building located at 1603 Orrington Avenue at the intersection with Davis Street.
Date:
1984
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
The Main, Chicago Avenue, Evanston
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View of the sign for "The Main"; in the center of the two-story building known by that name. Underneath that, the sign reads "Amazinggrace Presents Jim Post - Corky Siegel; Happy Turkeys!" The Main stood on Chicago Avenue at the southeast corner of the intersection with Main Street in Evanston.
Date:
1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Sherman Avenue shops, Evanston
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View of the east side of Sherman Avenue just south of the intersection with Clark Street. A three-story building has street-level shops and apartments above. Among the shops visible are Laury's Records, Student Book Exchange, The Dannon Yogurt Store and Bresler's Ice Cream. Diagonal street parking is available in front of the shops.
Date:
circa 1979
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Houses, Asbury Avenue, Evanston
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View looking northwest along the west side of Asbury Avenue in Evanston. 1120 Asbury is at the left. The white painted nineteenth-century Italianate house in the center of the image is 1124 Asbury Avenue. The intersection with Crain Street is partially visible at the far right.
Date:
1967
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access
Railroad station and parking lot, Evanston
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View looking northwest from the former Railroad Avenue, located north of Davis Street between Maple and Benson Avenues. The Chicago and North Western railroad station, now the Evanston (Davis Street) Metra station, is at the left. Businesses along Church Street are visible in the distance.
Date:
circa 1976
Collection:
C. William Brubaker Collection
Access:
Public access

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