Another retirement mansard

Another mansard retirement home for you, this time in Evanston, IL. My Evanston man-on-the-street Dan Consiglio sent it. He wonders if it is called Mansard Arms.

Mansartment

Apartment building in Evanston, IL, courtesy of Dan. Isn't Dan great? Do you need some video of Dan to put a face with a name? Here you go:

Mansard drive-thru banque

At what point does this mansard freak us out? When do we collectively cry "Pourquoi? what the f. is that?"

Perhaps it is an unwanted result of my success, but I like to think I've featured so many bad mansards that the reader really won't be shocked by any mansard. I like to think I've shown you everything. Recently I've even wondered if I was *gulp* running out of material.

And then I find this gem in my email in-box sent by Dan Consiglio from Chicago to my husband and forwarded to me, passed tenderly like a JPEG baton from runner to runner.

I think badmansard has conditioned us to expect such badmansardness from a bank and even a drive-through. But, holy mother of the mansard, WHY is there a window in the drive-through mansard? Dan thought change-counting trolls resided above the drive through. A youth hostel? The bank's safe?

Thanks again Dan. You're awesome and so is your BOOK (click here).

How about the rest of you? I have friends all over the country. Won't someone from outside of St. Louis and Chicago PLEASE send me a bad mansard? It's the only way I can top this monster (*note- there is an apartment building in Belleville rumored to be a mansard-upon-mansard mid-century modern.)

Finale de Mansard Maintenant de Chicago

This is the last of Danny Consiglio's Rogers Park "Mansard NOW!" series. Did you know Dan (St. Louis native, WGHS 1988) authored a parenting book, The New Dad from A-Z? It will be out later this spring; click here.

Mansards as far as les yeux can see

More from Chicago in Rogers Park, Hamilton Avenue.

Mansard Maintenant!

Another from Dan who writes this house was part of the "Mansard NOW!" movement in Chicago.  This one is somewhat visually interesting with the windows on all sides and side entry.  

BiState Curious

BadMansard.com has reached across the Mississippi River into Lincoln land in search of bad mansards.   Astute reader Dan who authors What my Kid's Art Says (click here) found a flock of bad mansards perched on Hamilton Avenue in Rogers Park.  Go read Dan's blog(s).  Dan is funny, friendly, smart and has quite an eye for mal mansards.

Who knew there were garages des mansards? And the window above the garage door- am I to believe folks sleep in the mansard above the garage?  Aren't the mansard dwellers worried about carbon monoxide poisoning?  This is an odd ball, even in my fantasy bad mansard world.

 Once again Dan has given me something to laugh at- something I've been doing since 1987.  Thanks Dan!