Two-story frame corner building. The first floor is a mish-mash of cladding, including faux stone, corrugated metal, and plywood. There are four doors on this side alone. At the far right is a sign for Victory Cleaners. The second story is clad in something resembling cedar shakes. There is a round turret on the left corner with a witch's hat roof with brackets underneath. On the right side there is an angular oriel window with an angular bracketed roof.

Storybook castle of brick and stone with a slate roof. The section on the right is two-story with a hipped/mansard slate roof that extends all the way down to the area between the 1st and 2nd floors. The first floor is red brick with stone lintels. In the center is a two-story stone tower with a pointed conical roof and a Juliet balcony on the second floor. The house becomes one-story and extends to the left in this photo. There is a large stone chimney on the front of this wing.

#TurretTuesday Englewood (Chicago) and River Forest.

#TurretTuesday. What a great idea! One reason I bought my place is because of the spire made from iron strips by some Shermerville farmer 125 years ago.

Two-story frame house clad in white stucco. It has a side-facing Dutch gable roof with one end of the gable serving as the porch roof. Emerging from the center of the roof is and octagonal turret with a pointed roof. On each side of the turret are two square dormers with hipped roofs. the porch extends across the front of the house, supported by four wooden posts.

Somewhat similar to the previous house but half as wide and no porch. Frame house clad in gray stucco with a side-facing Dutch gable roof. A wide octagonal turret topped with a finial/weather vane pokes through the roof on the left side. The entrance is on the right, sheltered by a bit of the sloping edge of the main roof.

#TurretTuesday Both from Chicago's Austin neighborhood

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Three-story corner building clad in limestone with a pressed metal polygonal turret with a flat top. The turret is mostly gray and is decorated with foliage, curly Qs, triangles, and other designs. The first level has been painted black and has roll-up metal window covers that are also painted black and are, therefore, hideous.

Three-story frame residence with a stone foundation. On the right side is a tower/turret topped with a very pointy onion dome. The rest of the facade is clad in beige siding with dark brown trim around the windows,

#TurretTuesday Logan Square, Chicago, and Oak Park

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Two-story corner brick building, painted gray on one wall and gray and tan on the other. The corner turret is of pressed metal and decorated with swags, other foliage, and a pattern of pointed ovals around the bottom. The turret and the left side of the building in this photo have a bracketed cornice. There are small arched windows on the first floor at left and a large arched opening on the right side.

1914 map showing the building and labeled "vehicles and livery."

#TurretTuesday 1617-1619 N. Hoyne, Chicago. Former stables, Albert Mills, architect. Map is from 1914; Alice Place is now Concord Place.

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Two-story frame residence with a stone foundation. The house is covered in beige siding and has an unpainted wooden porch across the front. The one unique feature about it is a polygonal turret roof on the right with no turret underneath it.

2.5-story frame house with stone foundation. The roof has multiple gable and there is a round turret with a witch's hat roof on the left. Gray shingles cover pretty much everything except for some decorative trim on the porch roof, in the peak of the tallest gable, and in a stringcourse right below the roof. The decoration is painted dark red and light orange.

#TurretTuesday Englewood (the roof without a turret) and Austin, Chicago

Three-story orange brick corner building with a round brick and stone turret at the corner. The building has a rough stone foundation, and stone lintels and borders around the windows. There is a bracketed cornice around the top of the turret and below that is a circle of large stone leaves going all the way around the turret.

This is one half of a three-story red brick building built ca. 1886. It has a rectangular turret on the left corner with a pyramidal roof and bay windows on the right side on the second and third floors. The foundation is rough stone as is an arch over a first floor window and the half arch framing the entrance. The other half of the entrance arch disappeared with the other half of the building.

#TurretTuesday Humboldt Park(1894) and East Garfield Park (1886), Chicago

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Like this house in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Three-story Second Empire brick building built in 1887. It has a mansard roof with multiple gabled dormers. The turret is the showstopper. It's polygonal in shape with a truncated pyramidal roof. There are round windows in the roof with a bracketed cornice below them. The entire turret is decorated with foliage, festoons, and other gingerbread.

Four-story buff brick Italianate? style building with a polygonal turret on the corner. The windows on the second and third floors and in the turret have rusticated limestone lintels. The fourth floor windows are arched. there is a heavy bracketed cornice across the top of the entire building, bay windows on the side, and a fire escape traveling down the building at the right.

How often do the Lunar New Year, Mardi Gras, and #TurretTuesday occur on the same day? These turrets are in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. I wish I had one in Chinatown.

Two-story frame house with multiple gables. A rectangular turret with no windows is stuck onto the second floor on the left. Everything is covered with light gray siding.

Two-story frame house with an onion dome sprouting from the front, to the right of center. Beneath the dome are fish scale shingles and beneath that is a bay window. The siding and shingles are white.

#TurretTuesday Englewood and Canaryville, Chicago

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2.5-story variegated brick residence with an angular tower on the left side. Above the second floor windows in the tower is a wide eave that runs around the whole house. Above the eave, the tower has another set of windows, another eave, and a pointed roof. The rest of the house has a hipped roof. There is a dormer to the right of the tower that has an arched window and a gable roof with an arch cut out of it. (I hope some tiny bit of this makes sense)

Two 2-story frame houses built so close together that there is no space between them. The house on the left has a pyramidal roof on the corner but not much of a turret. The rest of the house has yellow siding and a small front porch. The house on the left has beige siding and no turret. It does have an gable addition projecting from the second floor.

White frame house with a wrap-around porch and a round turret with a very pointy roof on the left. On the second floor at right is a gabled bay containing three multi-paned windows. The main roof of the house is hipped.

Narrow 2.5-story frame house that looks like it was assembled with leftovers from other houses. There are bay windows on the right side topped with a gabled section that looks like it fell out of the sky. The bays have yellow siding, the gable has beige. On the left is the entrance, with gray steps and yellow siding. Above the entrance is a square turret with a pyramidal roof and white siding. There is also brick red trim between the first and second floors.

#TurretTuesday Chicago's Austin neighborhood

2.5-story frame home with a gambrel roof and an angular tower on the right side with a pointed roof. The house is clad in dark gray clapboard siding and fishscale shingles. There is an oval window in the peak of the gambrel roof. The second floor has a central vertical rectangular window connected by a sort of wooden "eyebrow" to two small horizontal windows.

2.5-story Queen Anne frame residence with a hipped roof, an angular tower on the right, a dormer and a gable on the front, and a wrap-around porch.. The house is clad in narrow clapboard siding and fish scale shingles in the front-facing gable. The tower has a pointed angular roof topped with a finial. Most of the siding is dark green and the trim is cream with accents of orange.

#TurretTuesday East Avenue and Euclid Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois, with a bonus message for ICE

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Three-story residence. "It was constructed in 1888 and is a clear example of the Stick style of architecture. The frame structure is accented with wood trim. The exterior is clad primarily in bevel siding, with zones of fishscale shingles separating the windows. The window casing is made up of multiple pieces of trim. Brackets support the turret, and fretwork accents the gable front (Ridgeland Revealed, p36). It is painted coral with aubergine, turquoise, and teal accents.

Queen Anne-style 2.5 story residence. It has a gable roof, original wood siding painted dark blue, and a single-story full width porch. The turret on the right is supported by decorative brackets and has a rectangular witch's hat roof. Trim on the house is painted white.

#TurretTuesday part 2, Oak Park, Illinois.

Corner buildings across the street from each other. The one on the left was built in 1902, William Schulze, architect. It is three stories with a stone facade and a gorgeous 2-story pressed metal turret with a conical roof. The one on the right is a 2-story frame building from 1894. It has beige siding at the moment and the corner turret has a roof that would be conical except that the sides bulge out.

#TurretTuesday Neighbors on W. Fullerton in Chicago

Ornate, vaguely eastern looking brick building with a protruding corner turret topped by a yellow onion dome

We continue to celebrate #willcounty and their 190th birthday on this #turrettuesday with a nice onion dome on Plainfield’s Masonic block. Pic from a couple years ago

Four-story red brick corner building with a fancy angular turret on the corner of the 2nd-4th floors. Starting at the top, the parapet wall has been covered with what looks like red stucco. Below that is a row of brick corbels followed by two pairs of arched window opening. Beneath the arched windows is a narrow band of stone, two horizontal panels of textured red terra cotta, and two carved stone lintels. The second and third floor windows are rectangular and are separated by red terra cotta tiles arranged in a basket weave design. The first floor has replacement brick and new storefront windows as well as a sign for the restaurant that is located there, dimmi dimmi. The turret is hexagonal with a heavy cornice at the top, arched windows on the fourth floor, horizonal windows on the 2nd and third floors, and lots of gingerbread. It is painted brick red.

Tilted photo of a 4-story red brick corner building with a striking copper turret on the corner and copper oriel windows on the left. There is a gray cornice at the top, arched windows on the 4th floor, and rectangular windows on the floors below. All windows have some degree of stone trim including incised lintels and carved capitals at the top of brick piers. The entrance on the left is in an arched opening surrounded by rough stone that has been carved in a few spot. The corner of the first floor has storefront windows. The copper turret is angular and decorated with panels of small pyramids and flower borders between floors.

#TurretTuesday Armitage Avenue in Lincoln Park, Chicago. Both built ca. 1890.

Three-story frame Queen Anne style house. The house has cross gables, a hipped roof, and a round turret on the second and third floors. It is faced with beige clapboard siding and has taupe trim. There is a wraparound porch with spindlework, wooden support posts, and a wooden porch railing. The turret is topped with a conical roof and a finial.

#TurretTuesday Ernest Hemingway birthplace, Oak Park, Illinois. 1890, Wesley Arnold, architect.

Three-story brown brick corner building, with a two-story round brick turret on the corner. In the center of the turret, the words "Brueshaber" is carved on a curved stone panel. Elsewhere, arched windows on the 3rd floor have arched lintels with keystones. The first floor is occupied by a liquor store.

Two-story Stick style frame home with a deep wrap-around porch decorated with turned columns and spindles. The second floor has a front-facing gable on the left, painted blue-gray, navy blue, white, maroon, and gold. On the right is a rectangular turret topped with a roof that looks like a cheese grater that is compressed at one end.

#TurretTuesday Pilsen (Chicago) and Oak Park. The brick building was built ca. 1880. The house in Oak Park is from 1887, Frank Ellis, architect.

Queen Anne-style frame residence with gingerbread galore. The house has a hipped roof with an open turret attached on the left side of the second floor. The turret has a very pointy roof, decorative spindles, and no walls, creating a cute balcony. On the right side of the second floor is a bay with a gable roof. There is a half circle window in the peak of the gable bordered by dentils and triangular gingerbread. The first floor has an open porch across the entire front. The porch roof is supported by wood posts that flare at the top and merge with more carved spindles.

Another Queen Anne style frame home, this one with a three-story angular turret faced with horizontal siding on the first floor, shakes on the second, and triangular siding on the third. There is a wide screen porch on the right.

#TurretTuesday (also Festivus) Both of these are in Oak Park, Illinois

Two story corner building with a beautiful second floor facade of of rusticated stone in square and rectangular shapes. At the top is a cornice with dentils, painted black, and at the left is a round turret with a rounded roof topped with a pointed cap. The first floor is covered with beige siding, unfortunately.

Corner section of a three-story orange brick building with a round turret on the 2nd and 3rd floors. At the top of the turret are brick corbels and a stone cornice topped with an arched stone pediment. The pediment is decorated with carved swirls and topped with what looks like a stone jester's hat. The corner of the first floor is faced with unpainted wooden siding and is giving log cabin vibes

#TurretTuesday a day late. Pilsen and Little Village, Chicago

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Photograph of the side of a two-story red brick residence. There is a round turret at the corner of the second floor, probably made of pressed metal, decorated with dentils, squares, and a band of fine stripes. The turret is painted a cream color.

One side of a two-story double house of light brown brick with an angular turret on the corner. The turret has brick corbels at the top and a pointed angular roof. The windows in the turret have rough stone lintels and sills that have been painted white.

#TurretTuesday East and West Garfield Park, Chicago

Hulking three-story brick apartment building with a stone facade and a grocery store on the front of the first floor. There is a round stone turret on the corner with both smooth and rough stone, multiple windows, and a domed roof that comes to point and has a weather vane on top of it. The facade is mostly rusticated stone but has smooth stone pillars running vertically between the windows and smooth stone lintels. At the top is an arched pediment containing an oval-shaped window opening and carved swirl decoration.

Three-story corner building faced in smooth stone except for the rough stone bordering the windows. The star of the show here is the cornice and turret, which are either metal or wood, and lavishly decorated. The cornice has dentiling, multiple brackets, some with a leaf design, and other gingerbread including a wreath with a bow, interlocking ovals, and arched sunbursts. The turret has all the decoration on the cornice, plus panels of crisscrossed lines with fleur-de-lis in each diamond formed by the crossing pattern. The cornice and turret are painted white and the decoration is dark green and dark red.

#TurretTuesday South Lawndale and Wicker Park, Chicago