W. Lexington and S. Lytle Streets, Little Italy neighborhood.

Rehabilitation 1965 -1966.

Leonard Currie, rehabilitation architect.

Leonard and Virginia moved to Chicago in 1962, where Leonard was the founding dean of the College of Architecture and Art at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). A year or two later, the Curries purchased a spacious house in need of repair near the new Circle campus. The Curries’ rehabilitation of the 1860s house helped spark the renovation of Chicago’s Little Italy.