913 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL is a relatively nondescript building, easy to overlook as you're passing by.
Currently there's a wonderful restaurant called Cross-Rhodes (get it?) that serves American/Greek fusion... where you can get a great hamburger, sitting on top of the world's best Greek fries... yum.
Aside from the restaurant, you could easily pass the building without noticing it. It's a nice building, but easily overlooked, unless you happen to look up.
Near the top of the building, there are some lovely details... a great arch over the windows, and a couple of nice arches, and a festooned cow.
Yep, that's right... a cow. And not just a simple Bas Relief, it's a full cow's head, hanging up there, in the same colour as the rest of the brickwork, full three dimensional, as though someone had shot a cow on a Safari into central Wisconsin, and had the head mounted on the building's façade.
I don't know the history of Bessie (the name just seems appropriate), I imagine that at one time, or another, somewhere in the past it might have been a dairy... or perhaps a butcher's shop?
Whatever the history, it's a really cool decoration on an interesting building... Evanston's got a lot of architecturally interesting buildings.
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