A Lake Forest List of Ten Endangered Sites and Structures
Prepared by Preservation Board Member Arthur H. Miller, January 2006
For pictures see Waukegan News-Sun, Dec. 20, 2005
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1. SAVED! Log cabin at 297 Mills Court [Mrs. Thoye cottage, on site since before 1918 though moved after 1913 from Laurel Avenue area, across tracks; clapboard siding covers original log structure, with earthen/straw/horsehair chinking—very rare in this condition; earliest Lake Forest structure?] See Waukegan News-Sun,Dec. 20, 2005, on its move to Crabtree Farm, Lake Bluff.
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2. Mrs. Kersey Coates Reed estate landscape, 1315 North Lake Road [only bluff site running from ravine to ravine; for David Adler a de facto English landscape style terrace; subdivision sought. To create a separate building site on the southern portion, shown here.] East Lake Forest Historic District.
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3. Sylvester Lind stable (1859) and an early cottage, First Presbyterian Church, 700 North Sheridan Road, both shown. Bell School headmaster’s house’s garage and playhouse (Hugh M.G. Garden), 750 Sheridan Road, adjacent to Presbyterian Church property, recently purchased. All eyed for additional parking by the Church [no stated intention to demolish house at 750 N. Sheridan]. East Lake Forest Historic District.
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4. Charles Garfield King estate polo barn (Howard Shaw) and staff lodge (David Adler), Ridge Road--west side, south of Route 60 (shown); subdivided. [Maintenance and potential redevelopment issues.]
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5. View west from Lake Forest Academy and gardens (shown), former J. Ogden Armour Mellody Farm (Arthur Heun, Jens Jensen, O.C. Simonds). [Esp. in winter, vista from Armour villa built up, with no screening across lake.].
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6. Albert Lasker house’s garden settings (David Adler, Louise Hubbard, James L. Greenleaf), Estate Lane [allee south from living room, pool structures, cocktail lounge (shown), topiary garden area—maintenance, future development, unsympathetic development issues.]
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7. Conservatory, north side (shown), J. M Cudahys’ Innisfail (2nd), 830 N. Green Bay Rd. 1930; architect David Adler. [Notable feature used by daughter of Joy Morton for her gardening collapsed and derelict; property has been on the market.] Green Bay Road Historic District.
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8. Remaining few post-Civil-War African-American (escaped slaves and their descendants) small cottages (two shown), Illinois Road/Washington Road area. [Several have been demolished in the last ten years and perhaps three or so remain; note the replacement house to the right of an original residence, in the left hand photo]
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9. First Baptist Church, Oakwood Avenue, shown [since 1900s; originally lodge building of Foresters fraternal group; membership has dwindled and the building has ongoing maintenance issues.]
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10. City-owned cottages, Laurel Avenue [one, shown, in Queen Anne/Shingle Style style of Henry Ives Cobb, and others, ca. 1890; in the path of potential redevelopment of neighboring City offices, properties.]
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Arthur H. Miller, a Preservation Foundation Board member, is Archivist and Librarian for Special Collections, Lake Forest College library, and he and his spouse Jan live in Lake Forest. He has been recognized as a source of information on Lake Forest history, architecture and landscapes/gardens since the 1970s, and has written and lectured widely on these subjects. He is co-author with board member Shirley M. Paddock of Lake Forest: Estates People and Culture (Arcadia, 2000) and co-author with Kim Coventry and Danniel Meyer of Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest, Architecture and Landscape Design, 1856-1940 (W.W. Norton, 2003), both sources of the historic images used above. The other photos were taken by him for this project. He can be reached at 847-735-5064 or amiller@lakeforest.edu.
This list was developed originally in September 2005 and presented at a Board meeting, where it was approved. It has been updated in January 2006 by its author.
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