This is 13301 S. Burley Ave., in Hegewisch. It was built in 1890, but the only evidence you can see of its advanced age is the deteriorating cornice – everything else is covered in an unfortunate coating of vinyl siding. Given the corner location it might have had a ground-floor store or tavern.

This photo was taken in September 2010 and posted as part of a previous “House of the Day” series.

This South Shore home was built in 1890, during the first wave of development that took place in the neighborhood, near the Cheltenham stop on the Illinois Central South Chicago Branch. It’s a nice Victorian house with an octagonal tower and a terrific arch-enclosed porch.

Mark your calendar for June 17! You’ll want to be in Gary, Indiana for the first-ever Gary Preservation Tour Open House. After beating their crowdfunding goal by 20%, the organizers have been hard at work lining up sites to open to the public from 10am to 4pm.

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The house at 5732 W. Lake St., in the Austin community, is a broad-faced American Foursquare built in about 1910. It’s part of a row of well-kept houses facing the CTA Green Line across the street. The two doors suggest that it may in fact be a two-flat. The siding on the upper-story bays and around the porch windows, as well as the porch trim, is colored in a unique spectrum of green shades.