A Wrigley Field-area landmark has a different look these days

Mike BojanowskiIt’s a small item, perhaps even trivial, but we lovers of baseball, and of Wrigley Field, tend to put great stock in such things. Add some rose-filtered nostalgia inherent in late middle age, and you have a recipe for eccentric sentiment.

The rooftop turret at 3701 N. Kenmore, a neighborhood and later a ballpark landmark for over a century and a quarter, came down sometime before last December 28, likely not to be replaced. For those of us who remember the “historic sweep” of the pre-renovation Wrigley bleachers, this will be a notable loss.

3701 is the oldest of the structures that make up the classic outfield facades of Waveland and Sheffield Avenues. It was built in 1890,…