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    COMMITTED TO PRESERVING THE HISTORIC VISUAL CHARACTER OF LAKE FOREST, IL
log cabin
2006
Thanks to the generosity of Lake Bluff resident, John Bryan, a 165-year-old log cabin formerly located on Mills Court in Lake Forest will be preserved, and future generations will be able to enjoy what is perhaps the oldest surviving Lake Forest home. The cabin was moved to a wooded grove near Lake Michigan on Crab Tree Farm in Lake Bluff.

2005
In cooperation with the Historical Society, $2,500 for theElawa Farm Barn historical display [1401 West Middlefork Drive

$10,000 grant to Lake Forest College to help fund a campus-wide preservation planning document


2004
$15,000 grant to the City to help relight the
438 historic gas lights

Repaired and reinstalled a 1921 Knights of Pythias World War I memorial gate and plaque around an old elm tree [northeast corner of Deerpath and Green Bay Road]

Foundation and the City co-sponsored a two-day seminar, "Sense and Cents-abilities" with key-note speaker Donovan Rypkema"
 

$40,000 grant to Ragdale Foundation for emergency repairs to the foundation of the Howard Van Doren Shaw barnhouse [1260 North Green Bay Road]

$25,000 grant to the Elawa Farm Foundation for regrading work and architectural review [1401 West Middlefork Drive]

2003
$10,000 grant to Ragdale Foundation for its restoration campaign [1260 North Green Bay Road]

$1,000 grant to Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois toward their purchase of Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House in Plano, IL

2000
$25,000 grant to the City for the exterior restoration of Dickinson Hall, designed by Edwin Hill Clark in 1929 [Grove School Campus, 100 East Old Mill Road]

$1,000 grant to the First Baptist Church for exterior repair in honor of their 100th anniversary [673 Oakwood Avenue]

blank.gifFoundation and the City co-sponsored the 20th Annual Statewide Preservation Conference hosted by Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois  

$10,000 to the City for the Elawa Farms campaign [1401 West Middlefork Drive]

1998 - 1999
$10,000 grant to Market Square 2000, some of which was used to restore the fountain's foundation

1998 - 2001
$10,750 grant to Gorton Community Center for the restoration of the original canopied west entrance and lantern [400 East Illinois]

1997 - 1998
$1,700 grant for the construction and mounting of the map case in the lobby of City Hall [Lobby, City Hall, 220
East Deerpath]


1996 - 1998
Raised over $125,000 to restore the Walden-Bluff's Edge Bridge [end of Walden Lane]

1994 - 1995
$4,700 for the restoration and mounting of the Bennett Memorial Bell at the downtown train station. The bell was a gift of Kay Bennett, the widow of Edward H. Bennett, Jr., who was one of the Foundation's founders and first president [691 North Western Avenue]



1994 - 1998
$1,250 grant to the Illinois towns of Eldred and Hillview following devastating 1993 floods
 

1993 - 2001
Foundation voted to help fund a comprehensive list of all significant houses within the City's Historic District
 

1993
$3,000 grant to Lake Forest College for conservation of a rare 1906 general plan for Lake Forest University [Basement, Donnelley and Lee Library, 555 North Sheridan]


1990 - 1995
Foundation support, including $34,000 and many volunteer hours, for the Green Bay Road National Register District [yellow]

1990
$500 grant to support the preservation of the historic resources of Fort Sheridan
 

1985
$500 grant to the First Baptist Church for exterior renovation [673 Oakwood Avenue]

1980
Foundation support for the Vine-Oakwood-Green Bay Road National Register District [blue]

1978 - 1986
Raised $400,000 to renovate the downtown railroad station [691 North Western Avenue]

1976
Foundation support for the Lake Forest National Register District [pink]

1976
Preservation Conference sponsored jointly with the Lake Forest Garden Club, the Historical Society, Open Lands and Nature Conservancy

400 East Illinois Road, Lake Forest, Illinois, 60045 • Phone: 847-234-1230 • Fax: 847-234-9250 • e-mail© 2008, The Lake Forest reservation Foundation. All rights reserved

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