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#TurretTuesday Little Village (Chicago) and Oak Park
Two-story building with smooth gray stone on the facade. On the right is a castle-like turret/tower with crenellations at the top and narrow windows perfect for shooting arrows through. There is an oriel window on the second floor to the left of the turret that is painted white and decorated with dentils and other gingerbread. Stunning 3-story Queen Anne style home with pale green fishscale shingles on the top half and the same color horizontal siding on the rest. There is a small round turret on the second floor, left side above the front porch. The trim on the house is painted dark maroon with a few yellow accents here and there. The architect for this was Wesley Arnold, ca. 1895.
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#TurretTuesday Kenwood and Brighton Park, Chicago
Three-story red brick double house (according to the Historic Resources Survey) with a round corner turret topped with a conical roof. The main roof is sort of a gambrel but flattened on the top. There are simple stone window hoods on the turret windows. Two-story buff brick corner store (a former Schlitz tied house) with a white polygonal turret on the second floor with a very tall pointy roof. the Just to the left of the turret is the terra cotta Schlitz globe logo and was present on many of their tied houses in the city. There is a stone band around the top of the building and stone trim around the windows, the first floor corner is now a grocery store with large store windows filled with signs.
October 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM Everybody can reply
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#TurretTuesday Kenwood and Pilsen, Chicago
The Alonzo Fuller House, built in 1890, Frederick Perkins, architect. The AIA Guide to Chicago Architecture says "Alonzo's imposing house works tan stone into towers, gabled pavilions, and verandas wrapped around a hip-roofed core." The tower/turret looks a bit like the Duomo in Florence in both shape and the red tile covering the roof. Red tile is used on the main roof and the porch roof as well. It's stunning. Three-story red brick corner building with a mansard roof on the corner section and a slightly gabled roof on the rest. There is a rectangular turret on the corner of the second and third floors, topped with its own little mansard rood. The turret is made of pressed metal and painted sage green. It is supported by one iron pillar right at the corner. There is brick corbelling above the windows on both the 2nd and 3rd stories. The mansard roof looks like it has slate shingles. The rest of the building is much plainer, with simple rectangular stone window hoods above all the windows. There is a fire escape on the left side.
October 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM Everybody can reply
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#TurretTuesday Both in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood
Three-story brick building most of which is hidden by a tree. There is commercial space on the first floor and a round turret on the corner of floors 2 and 3. The turret has no roof and looks like it is made out of concrete but it is probably stucco or some other kind of thin coating. It's the drabbest turret I've seen in a while. It also has no supporting columns under it. Three story brick and stone apartment building on a residential corner. There is a polygonal turret on the corner, either wood or pressed metal, that is decorated with geometric shapes and foliage. The turret and the vertical paneling covering the first floor are painted light blue-gray with green accents.
October 14, 2025 at 12:43 PM Everybody can reply
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#TurretTuesday Back of the Yards (Chicago) and Berwyn, Ilinois
Two-story frame building with a square corner turret with pyramidal roof. The building has gray siding and a blue and white awning over the corner entrance advertising "El Buen San Pedrano" grocery store. Lovely frame residence with narrow yellow wooden siding and a wraparound front porch with delicate spindle work. There is a polygonal turret at the left and a dormer with a little hipped roof at right.
October 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM Everybody can reply
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For what it's worth, it's #TurretTuesday. These are on North Avenue in Chicago.
Three story orange brick corner building with a 2-story polygonal turret painted gray and green. Four-story red brick corner building with a 3-story turret. The top of the turret is round and appears original although it is missing a roof. The 2nd and 3rd floor sections of the turret and angular and don't match the top. Three story beige brick corner building with a 2-story round brick turret. There are dentils along the top of the building and around the turret, painted brown. The windows have stone lintels.
September 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM Everybody can reply
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#TurretTuesday West Town, Chicago
Three-story red brick corner building with a 2-story pressed metal turret lavishly decorated with foliage and geometric shapes. The turret has a conical roof topped with a small finial. Four-story red brick corner building with an unusual rectangular pressed metal turret painted dark gray. The turret has dentils across the top and rows of circles along the bottom. Three-and-a-half story red brick corner building with an angular turret, possibly made of wood, painted white. The turret has a roof that is shaped like a badminton birdie. The building has a mansard rood with small dormers projecting from it.
September 16, 2025 at 11:39 AM Everybody can reply
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Despite the timestamp, gonna pretend this was posted today for #TurretTuesday
theonion.com The Onion @theonion.com · Sep 8
Real Estate: House With Cool Turret Thing
Come on, look at how cool this tower thingy is. Imagine sitting in a little circular room like that. So cool. Reference #56727
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#TurretTuesday Garfield Park and Pilsen, Chicago
Not a complete turret, but I'm allowing it because of the roof. An angular bay window with a pointed turret roof on the side of a red brick garage Buff brick two-story corner building with a turret on the second floor at the corner. The turret is angular and has an angular roof. There is a pressed metal cornice with a decorative floral pattern around the corners at both ends of the building.
September 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM Everybody can reply
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#TurretTuesday in Chicago's Austin neighborhood
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#TurretTuesday 1001 N. (formerly 492) California, Chicago, 1896.
December 2, 2024 at 2:46 PM Everybody can reply
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Adding this to the return envelope of a bill & literally posting it on #TurretTuesday
Cropped screenshot of the Chris Ware artwork from a larger book of stamps, this section featuring a few folks walking with telltale outstretched zombie arms and a handful that haven’t been turned yet. There’s also a turreted building with various Rear Window type Hitchcockian vignettes unfolding. It’s not shown, but surely someone, somewhere, is being murdered. Or maybe it’s not that at all. I ain’t no art expert.
July 8, 2025 at 8:25 PM Everybody can reply
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Celebrating #TurretTuesday with 2324 W. North Ave., ca. 1899.
Color photo of a two-story mixed-use corner building on a city street. Facade is brick but all eyes go to serious turret above corner entrance, at least five-sided with panels of square and rectangle designs in red, gray, and light blue. Steeply pitched roof, also in segments, giving the lady a formidable hat.
September 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM Everybody can reply
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Too many turrets? #TurretTuesday
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#TurretTuesday West Town, Chicago. One of these gets an eyeroll from me.
December 2, 2024 at 1:45 AM Everybody can reply
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One more for #TurretTuesday
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7128 S. Yale, Chicago, ca. 1880. Happy #TurretTuesday!
December 5, 2024 at 6:29 PM Everybody can reply
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One more for #TurretTuesday on Chicago Ave.
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#TurretTuesday North Side of Chicago
Four-story red brick corner building with a 3-story turret made of unknown material, but maybe pressed metal. The turret is currently painted sage green and decorated with gingerbread painted off white. Three-story tan brick corner building with a 2-story corner turret painted off white with taupe accents. A cornice with dentils runs across the top of the building, including across the cornice. The first floor entrance has been updated and features permastone? and glass blocks. Three-story red brick corner building with a large corbeled cornice, a two-story bay window on the left and a 2-story cupola on the right. The cornice and most of the bay and the cupola are off white with navy blue accents. Red brick three-story corner building with a two-story corner turret painted off white with black decoration, including dots, swags, and interlocking circles. The first floor has been decorated to look like half timbering.
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#TurretTuesday Pilsen and McKinley Park, Chicago
Four-story red brick building with a round turret on the corner of floors 2-4. There is a rusticated stone border at the base of the turret and in between the 2nd and 3rd floors. The windows on the front of the third floor are arched with stone arches above them. The 4th floor has an arched window, a rectangular window, and three windows in the turret trimmed in stone with some gingerbready decoration, possibly of pressed metal, at the top. Two-story corner building of brown face brick and Chicago common brick. The corner entrance is bricked over and the second floor turret and second floor facade are covered with fake stone. The turret is angular and missing its roof.
August 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM Everybody can reply
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#TurretTuesday from Brighton Park, Chicago
December 2, 2024 at 5:26 PM Everybody can reply
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Happy September and #TurretTuesday!
December 7, 2024 at 6:42 AM Everybody can reply
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I've been reminded that it is #TurretTuesday. I truly have no idea what day it is most of the time. Here's one in Pilsen.
December 7, 2024 at 5:12 PM Everybody can reply
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#TurretTuesday from Back of the Yards. 1901 W. 47th, 1898; 2001 W 47th, 1906.
December 5, 2024 at 4:03 AM Everybody can reply
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When you want to be fancy, so you get yourself one of those turrets that everyone is talking about. “Just plop it down on the ground. Whatever works.”

45 Indian Hill Rd overlooking the Indian Hill Golf Club in Winnetka.

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