We continue to study the decay and abandonment of a once-prosperous, typical, middle-class neighborhood. Maybe a bit upper-middle.

An anomaly in most places. Common here.

But. 2009:

2013:

I suppose that's better.

Let’s take a look at another block. Something could be done with this.

And, I suppose, something was.

The last day

The ornamentation survived.

There aren't any stories in a vacant lot.

A survivor: intact and clean and useful!

Aston Singer? Wonder who he was. Or they.

You think it might be rehabbed and brought back to live, but . . .

No.

The ads at the time said

Finest hotel in Highland Park: newly decorated. Beautifully furnished. Bath and telephone in every room: valet services, coffee shop, cozy lobby: reasonable rates.

Let us end here:

Even the worst of streets have light and glory.