It’s no mistake that people feel that specialness in Lake Forest. The historic tree canopy, ancient land formations, human-scale business district buildings, planned roads and an open forest park beach.
From the beginning, Lake Forest attracted and retained many of the nation’s foremost urban planners, architects, and landscape and garden designers.
As the City of Lake Forest embarks on plans to improve its Central Business District, or downtown, the town’s remarkable heritage of planning for development provides a valuable historic context.
London Architect Peregrine Bryant’s 2005 west courtyard addition to Howard Van Doren Shaw’s 1917 Krafft’s Drug Store Building, immediately south of Market Square, 1916.