Potluck wishes to extend a big shout out to Stuart Meyer, who has an exhibit of downtown Naperville photography opening Saturday. "Portraits of Downtown" will be on display through July 28 at Art and Frame Naperville, 702 W. Fifth Ave. Admission is free and open to the public. Ten percent of exhibit-related sales proceeds will be donated to the Naperville Art League.
Meyer is creator of the World of Naperville blog, www.naperville.wordpress.com, and he writes about his town as the Naperville Examiner on Examiner.com
A reception for the "Portraits of Downtown" opening takes place from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday at Art and Frame Naperville, www.artandframenaperville.com.
Check out his pictures, and you'll see that despite all the changes and new construction in downtown Naperville there are still some fine examples of late-19th and early 20th century architecture to be found.
What's your favorite example of architecture in Naperville? The old city hall-turned-La Sorella di Francesca? Buildings at the corner of Jefferson & Washington? Maybe you like more modern fare, outside of downtown (not featured in the exhibit), like the "N" building by the tollway. Hey, even the Riverwalk counts as architecture. Maybe there's a private residence you particularly admire. Tell us about it, and why you like it.
I grew up in this town (although I have lived in some other places during my adult life) and when I was small, I always dreamed of being a princess and living in Judge Knoch's house (on 5th Avenue near Washington). I think that house still stands there today -- but I no longer dream of being a princess.
Another residence I have always found intriguing is the "stone house" on Loomis St. & 4th Avenue, which is currently for sale. My uncle grew up there with his cousins. Later I learned that my elementary school art teacher, Caroline Finzer, was my uncle's second cousin.
The Kroehler building is also one that I recall from my youth when I would sit on our front porch on Loomis St. as a kid and hear the 7:00 whistle blow to call its employees to work.
Many, many memories. . .