South Shore’s 1920s real estate boom, the preservation fight to turn what was once a racist country club into a park district asset for the all Chicagoans, vacancy, disinvestment, demolition, and the first market-rate development in the neighborhood since the Great Depression.

A nifty bit of Gothic Moderne designed by Jansson and Venning, the Walther League of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod opened their national headquarters here in 1942, but you’d only know that from the brick and beige sliver of the old Lynch Residence next door.