I learned a lot about architecture by reading McMansion Hell and then paying attention to details on my drives around the city. It is a great educational resource and a good laugh.
I'm sure that was all much more tasteful and better aligned when it was first built... Sandstone gothic? Disco cathedral? perhaps not.<p>Makes me wonder if that was the home of the folks who had the minigolf course and bowling alley in Lombard. Something about the stonework seems reminiscent of those places.
Some on the political left oppose the detached single family home. Condemning "suburban sprawl" filled with "McMansions" built by "greedy developers" is the rhetoric used to stop the rif raff from buying homes that they want.