Historic House Walk

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I only briefly mentioned the Historic House Walk in which I participated on Sunday, and I wanted to show more pictures and tell more about it.

When I moved to Rogers Park, I saw that the Historical Society was just across the street from my house, but at that time, it seemed to be still “closed for the pandemic.” Then, there were so many things going on in my life that although I was still curious about the Rogers Park history, it was just “yet another thing” that I would get to “at some point.”

Then I visited the Historical Society website and realized that they are already doing many interesting things, and I am missing out. I subscribed to their newsletter and finally started to learn about tours and presentations. Most times, it would turn out that the timing does not work for me, but for the Historic House Walk, it worked! I joined the society and paid the fee for the Walk, and on Sunday at noon, I was there!

This year’s House Walk featured several houses in the Peterson Woods (I forgot to mention that the Historical Society covers both Rogers Park and West Ridge).

All the houses were very interesting and worth seeing, but I liked less the houses where the new owners made a lot of renovations, no matter how awesome these renovations looked. I liked it way more when the owners preserved the old windows and trim, opened the covered stained glass, and restored the original tiles.

That used to be the place for the house phone:)
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Original tiles!
The most expensive house on the tour
The ice chest

I can’t show half of the pictures because there are always people there, but I think I gave at least some impressions.

All the houses on the tour were built between 1926 and 1937, and my house was built in 1907, and I think it might worth the tours as well:)

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My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996. I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future. I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life. As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.

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