Vinci will discuss the formation of the Chicago Heritage Commission specifically to save the Garrick, and how it brought together individuals who went on to become leaders in Chicago’s preservation movement. He will analyze the building’s structure, from its two-story bridge trusses to its towering wrought iron phoenix columns and detail the monumental effort that preserved significant sections of exterior terra cotta, interior cast plaster ornamentation, and wall stencil designs. The presentation will include a combination of black and white images, by fellow salvager and architectural photographer Richard Nickel, and Vinci’s own Kodachrome slides that not only capture Sullivan’s masterful design but also reveal their painstaking efforts to preserve that design through exhaustive documentation and methodical extraction of interior and exterior ornament during the building’s demolition in 1961.