LAKE FOREST PRESERVATION FOUNDATION
Summer 2025
Summer 2025PRESERVATION
A New Historic District Awaits, page 2
A New Historic District Awaits, page 2
from the president
Welcome to the Preservation Foundation’s Summer issue!
We are proudly featuring our recently awarded properties dating from 1898 to 2024. Our awards this year celebrate a range of property owners’ good stewardship of historic and compatible structures.
In addition, we are providing an over-view of historic districts in Lake Forest. For the first time in two decades, the Founda-tion is leading an effort to create a new local historic district in West Lake Forest for the sixteen surviving structures of arguably Lake Forest’s greatest estate — the David Adler-designed Albert Lasker estate along Old Mill Road and Estate Lane in south-west Lake Forest. Known as the father of
modern advertising, Lasker built a sprawl-ing estate on almost five hundred acres in West Lake Forest in the 1920s complete with an eighteen-hole golf course. Many of the structures have been converted into single family homes.
Did you know:
The City’s preservation ordinance allows for the creation of local historic districts.
Local historic districts protect home-owners within the district by establishing guidelines for architecturally preserving and maintaining the historic integrity of the designated area. It also aids in limit-ing the construction of non-conforming structures within the district.
The proposal to create the Lasker his-toric district has been overwhelmingly supported by the owners of many of the Adler-designed structures that have been converted into single family homes.
These structures are just as historic and architecturally significant as similar cen-tury-old properties on the east side of Lake Forest.
If the Lasker historic district is created by the City, it will mark the second local residential historic district in West Lake Forest, joining the Meadowood Dairy on Hathaway Circle which was approved a quarter century ago.
Enjoy the issue and the summer ahead! – Henry Kleeman
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Early Summer Garden Stroll, Vintage Cars, and Proposed Lasker District
he LFPF hosted our Early Summer Garden Stroll & Vintage Car Celebration at the former Lasker Garage House. What a memorable experience to view this vast collection of unique cars displayed on the grounds of such a befitting and compel-ling property.
Preservation Commission (HPC) a new local historic district for the present sixteen preserved David Adler-designed Mill Road Farm estate of ad tycoon Albert and spouse Flora Lasker, 1920s. He disposed of the estate in 1939 and its preservation since has been a shared responsibility of generations of residents. The local district would put the area under the purview of the HPC, with its reviews of changes to properties, including demolitions and subsequent development for compatibility in the neighborhood.
The house today at 1221 S. Estate Lane,
a century old, dates from designs by David Adler, 1925–26. This charming centenar-ian is a significant, major contributing structure in the Lasker Estate/Mill Road Farm Local Historic District proposed this year by the Lake Forest Preservation Foundation.
By 1957, the property was on the mar-ket, adaptively reused as a residence, with a new Dutch or South African baroque wall gable for the north-facing centered entry. This replaced Adler’s signature dog trot central pass-through for estate service buildings. In the late 1990s local architect Dan Sutherland added two south wings to the residence.
The well-maintained and updated prop-erty, a 1997 LFPF Adaptive Reuse Award winner, still stands proudly, the result of careful stewardship that makes its survival into the future highly likely.
The Foundation, as granted author-ity in the 1998 City preservation ordi-nance, has proposed to the City’s Historic
Cover Image: Neighbors Joan and Brian Maxwell arrive in a 1960 Jaguar XK150 at the LFPF June Garden Stroll.
Garden Stroll photos by Ian McLeod.
Lasker Garage House owners, Aysen and Tom Stanis
Featured Programs and Events
Spring is magical at Westmoreland Farm, this year’s venue for the Annual Meeting Reception.
20 S. Stonegate Fundraiser
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The Beidler family home, designed by Harrie T. Lindeberg, was the center-piece of the May event led by Thomas Rajkovich. Thanks to our hosts Prue and Frank Beidler, nearly $7,000 was raised for
LFPF projects and initiatives.
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Annual Meeting and Reception
he LFPF Annual Meeting was held on April 27 at Gorton Center followed by
a reception at the fabulous Westmoreland Farm. Our Historic Preservation Awards for 2025 were presented to eight homes and Board Member Arthur Miller gave an informative presentation on his favorite five houses (“plus one”) in Lake Forest.
Outgoing Board President Brian Norton, an avid Triumph collector, poses with one of his parting gifts.
Harrie T. Lindeberg’s 20 S. Stonegate
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The LFPF Board of Directors, led by new President Henry Kleeman, gathered for a summer board meeting at Director Kelsey Kleinert’s historic home. Henry, third row, right, currently serves on the City’s Zoning Board of Appeals and has previously served as President of the
Ragdale Foundation.
For more information and updates, visit lfpf.org/events.
LFPF Awards Scholarships to Graduating Seniors
Pictured here are Rayanne Attar, Katherine Yakes, and Simon Back with LFPF Director, Kelsey Kleinert, at
the Lake Forest High School awards ceremony, May 29.
Historic Designation: Lake Forest’s Local Historic Districts
preserving the architectural and cultural heritage of a community. These districts are defined by specific criteria, in Lake Forest’s case, its seventeen standards, that consider historical significance, architectural integrity, and the overall contribu-tion of the neighborhood. All historic districts — local and national, contain properties that reflect the history and cul-ture of the community, demonstrating a cohesive character that can be visually and historically evaluated. There are five local historic districts in Lake Forest and more than 2,300 local historic districts in the United States.
Local historic districts can have an eco-nomic benefit, both for the owner and for the city. For property owners, buying a home in a historic district means increased stability in the neighborhood stemming from the assurance that properties around them will be renovated in a manner that is likely to enhance the value of their own property. The clear benefit to the city is that increased property values translates into a stronger tax base.
A map showing the five local historic districts as well as sixteen individual land-marks (properties individually protected in Lake Forest) is shown at left.
In chronological order, these are the five local historic districts in Lake Forest:
Lake Forest Historic District
Roughly East Lake Forest from Lake Forest Cemetery on the north to Ringwood Road on the south and the Central Business District on the west to Lake Michigan on the east. Listing 1/26/1978.
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Vine-Oakwood-Green Bay Road
Historic designation of properties and structures helps to maintain the iden-
tity of a community and provides an under-standing of the past in order to better plan for the future. A historic designation bene-fits the entire community as it has proven to be an excellent tool for economic devel-opment and stability. Lake Forest has benefited from having historic designations.
In Lake Forest there are two types of his-toric designations for properties, structures, objects, sites, or districts: federal designation and local designation. At the federal level, properties may be listed individually or as a District in the National Register of Historic Places. Listing on the National
Register is purely an honorary designation that imposes no restrictions on property owners. At the local level, properties may be designated as a Local Historic Landmark or District by the City’s Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) and City Council. A local listing is subject to design and com-patibility review by the HPC. A property or district that is designated to the National Register of Historic Places is not required to be designated as a Local Landmark; a Local Landmark does not require listing in the National Register. (Peter Coutant, City of Lake Forest)
Local historic districts are designated areas recognized for their significance in
Historic District
Includes properties along Vine Avenue, properties along Oakwood Avenue south of Illinois Road, and properties along the east side of Green Bay Road between Saint Mary’s Church and Vine Avenue. Listing 3/28/1980.
Green Bay Road Historic District Roughly the Green Bay Road corridor from the City limits on the north to Onwentsia Road on the south, and adjacent proper-ties on intersecting east-west streets and Ahwahnee Road. Listing 11/7/1995.
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2025 PRESERVATION AWARDS
2025 PRESERVATION AWARDS
600 E. Westminster – Westover
Awarded for Preservation
Original owner:
Martha Hughitt and Hiram McCullough
Current owner:
Lynda and Michael Mooney
Original architect:
Charles Sumner Frost, FAIA, 1897–98
Rehabilitation architect:
Vinci-Hamp Architects, ca. 2000 Rehabilitation landscape architect: Doug Hoerr
Originally built for Martha Hughitt McCullough and designed by Charles Sumner Frost, Westover is a compelling “six degrees” story. Frost was not merely the architect — he was family, married to Martha’s sister, Mary Hughitt Frost. Both were daughters of Marvin Hughitt, president and founder of the Chicago & Northwest-ern Railroad.
A third sister, Belle Hughitt, married Alfred Hoyt Granger — who would later become Frost’s partner in the esteemed firm Frost & Granger, best known for designing C&NW Railroad terminals. Frost’s own
house, Eastover, stands next door.
In Westover, Frost expressed architec-tural confidence and fluency with the fash-ionable ideals of the 1890s. He reinterpreted the eighteenth-century Georgian Colonial with playful and innovative touches:
Attic dormers centered overall though not on the entry
Incongruous second-floor bay windows
An oversized broken scroll pediment with rosette terminals, transformed into a dramatic porch roof
By the mid-twentieth century, this sig-nature porch had been removed — its absence captured in a stark archival pho-\tograph. While much of the interior was later renovated by David Adler in 1935, it’s unclear whether he was responsible for the removal of the porch.
In the early 2000s, the Morrison family, with architect John Vinci, restored the original Frost porch. Landscape architect Doug Hoerr completed the vision with sympathetic grounds design, returning the property to its full architectural integrity.
85 Sunset Place
Awarded for Preservation
Original owners:
Margaret and Stanley Kiddle Current owner: Meredith Mitchell Likely original builder:
Griffis Brothers, 1928
Originally built for Margaret and Stanley Kiddle, this charming Colonial/Federal-style residence is a quintessential example of the post-World War I building boom in Lake Forest’s West Park neighborhood.
The house stands on what was once the north side of the original 1895 Holt Subdivision — south of an area laid out by How-ard Van Doren Shaw on the old Atteridge
farm. Today it is part of the West Park National Register Historic District.
While Sunset Place originally had homes on both sides, the City later acquired and cleared the north side to expand the park, leaving the homes on the south side — like this one — with treasured park-front views. Architecturally, it follows a timeless for-mula: a central door flanked by two win-dows below and three windows above — a classic pattern. Graceful convex copper bay roofs beside the front door recall the English Regency style, while a simplified broken pediment crowns the entrance with
understated elegance.
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Meadowood Dairy Historic District Clifford Milton Leonard Farm, “Meadowood Dairy”; built 1923–1926.
Individual Contributing Structures
Seven of the Ralph Varney-designed cottages and barns are on Hathaway Circle. The chicken house is located on Inverlieth Road. Listing 8/10/2000.
Grove School Historic District
Grove Cultural Campus — north of Old Mill Road, south of North Croft Park, east of properties on the east side of Ridge Road and west of the Pacific Northwest Rail Line. Local Listing 8/5/2002.
2025 PRESERVATION AWARDS
2025 PRESERVATION AWARDS
380 Chiltern Drive
Awarded for Preservation
Original owners: Ellen and Paul C. Loeber
Current owners:
Kip Halverson and Trey Gonzales Original architect: Stanley D. Anderson, Anderson & Ticknor, 1930
Originally built for Ellen and Paul C. Loeber and designed by Stanley D. Anderson of Anderson & Ticknor, this asymmetrical French Renaissance-style house exemplifies the refined “Châteauesque” tradition of the 1930s.
Constructed of limewashed brick with limestone details, steel windows, and a slate-tiled roof, it reflects the most tailored and fashionable sensibilities of its era. Its irregular but balanced form quickly made it one of Lake Forest’s most beloved houses. Built in 1930, shortly after the 1929 crash, this residence marked the final phase of Edward Turnbull’s expansion of Deer-path Hill Estates. Its historical significance is underscored by its listing on the National Register of Historic Places — a recognition due in large part to preservationist Paul
Bergmann.
980 N. Green Bay Road
Awarded for Rehabilitation
Original owners:
Mary Lord and Prentice Loomis Coonley
Current owners:
Amy Falls and Hartley Rogers
Original architect:
Howard Van Doren Shaw, 1911 Rehabilitation architect: Liederbach & Graham Rehabilitation builder:
Lynch Construction
Originally built for Mary Lord and Pren-tice Loomis Coonley and designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw in 1911, this
estate is a landmark of American Arts and Crafts architecture.
While the main house has long been celebrated, its handsome stable and garage complex had been neglected — until now. The service buildings, intended to be seen along the drive, are composed of painted timber and red brick in the American Arts and Crafts style and feature a walled courtyard and a charming glazed cupola.
They have now been sensitively adapted for residential and home office use. Though the interiors lie outside our award’s focus, it is worth noting they have been reimagined with care and beauty.
1570 Estate Lane – Horse Barn II
Awarded for Rehabilitation
Original owners:
Flora and Albert Lasker
Current owner: Neelie Fritz
Original architect: David Adler, 1923
Originally part of Albert Lasker’s estate and modified by David Adler in 1923, this building began life as a horse barn around 1913.
After Flora Lasker’s death in 1936, Albert gifted the Old Mill Farm to the University of Chicago, which sold off parcels in 1947. It was during this time that Horse Barn II
was adapted into a single-family residence. (Horse Barn I is now owned by the Pres-ervation Foundation’s Executive Director, Jennifer McGregor.)
Recent restoration has focused on pre-serving the structure’s character: the roof was replaced in kind, the original “Adler French Blue” paint reinstated, brick pavers reset, fencing restored, and landscaping refreshed to support the rural feel.
Today, it stands as a testament to thoughtful adaptive reuse and stewardship of Lake Forest’s architectural past, now part of the proposed Lasker Historic District.
2025 PRESERVATION AWARDS
2025 PRESERVATION AWARDS
620 Lake Road – Bluff ’s Edge
Awarded for Rehabilitation
Original owners:
Adele Blow and Wayne Chatfield-Taylor Current owners: Kelly and Jeffrey Brincat Original architects: Rebori, Wentworth, Dewey & McCormick, 1925 Rehabilitation architect:
Edward Deegan, 2024
Built in 1925 for Wayne and Adele Blow Chatfield-Taylor by the firm of Rebori, Wentworth, Dewey & McCormick, this Georgian Revival house blends classical tradition with the spirit of early twentieth-
century American design.
Poised dramatically on a bluff overlook-ing a ravine-edged tableland, the house showcases red brick, crisp white trim, and a central garden façade framed by Corinthian pilasters and a broken-pediment doorway.
The current owners, after a decade of care, have made thoughtful updates for modern family life — including a glazed breezeway, mudroom, and attached garage — all carried out with great respect for the house’s architectural integrity.
1274 N. Sheridan Road
Awarded for Infill
Original owner: Susan DePree
Original architect:
Nate Lielasus for Northworks, 2024
Built for Susan DePree by Nate Lielasus of Northworks, this house is a model of exem-plary infill within the East Side Historic District.
Located directly next door to the resi-dence of her daughter Lucy Bickford and son-in-law, architect Bill Bickford, the house was carefully designed to appear contemporaneous with their 1925 home by Granger.
By matching materials, scale, and detail, the house reinforces the historic streets-cape while adding discreetly to the district’s ongoing vitality.
1000 Grandview Lane
Awarded for Infill
Owners:
Nancy Lyons and Dr. Steven M. Hannick
Architect: Diana Melichar, 2024
Builder: Lynch Construction
Designed by architect Diana Melichar in 2024 and built by Lynch Construction for Nancy Lyons and Dr. Steven M. Hannick, this home is an outstanding example of modern infill within South Lake For-est’s rare postwar Mid-Century Modern
enclave — bounded by Westleigh, Beverly, Old Elm, and Waveland Roads.
In a neighborhood shaped by designers like Edward Dart, Jack Viks, Robert Rasmussen, and Ike Colburn, this new house fits gracefully. It honors its setting while standing clearly as a product of its own time — demonstrating that preservation is not only about the past, but about extending tradition forward with care and creativity.
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Upcoming Events!
Annual Crab Tree Farm Tours
Saturday, July 19, 2025
10:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m.
or “Art After 4” Tour at 4:00 p.m.
Crab Tree Farm, 982 Sheridan Road, Lake Bluff, IL, 60044
$65/members; $75/non-members for regular tours; $120 for “Art After 4” event
This is a very special annual program, thanks to Crab Tree Farm, with volunteer docents from the Lake Forest Preservation Foun-dation Board led by Board Member Tom Gleason. The “Art After 4” event includes the farm tour as well as a new exhibit by Chicago metal worker Robert Jarvie, fol-lowed by a wine reception in The Lodge.
2025–2026
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Henry Kleeman
President
Brian Norton Immediate Past President Laura V. Luce
Susannah Sullivan
VP Advocacy
Kelsey Kleinert Arthur H. Miller VP Communications
Jan Gibson Patti Poth
VP Development
Stephen Bedrin Jim Opsitnik VP Programs
Gina Zisook Secretary Timothy Knight
Treasurer
DIRECTORS
Raymond Buschmann Perry Georgopoulos Tom Gleason
Jennifer Karras Dawn Kimbrel
- Nicholas Loope Max Lynch
Robin Norkus Ann Phillips Karla Schwartz James Shearron Nadine Shepard
HONORARY DIRECTORS
Pauline Mohr Shirley Paddock Linda Shields
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Jennifer M. McGregor
The Lake Forest Preservation Foundation is a tax-exempt nonprofit 501(c)3 organization. You may donate directly to us at LFPF.org.
PRESERVATION
SUMMER 2025
VOLUME 20, NUMBER 2
contributors: Susan Banks, Jan Gibson, Henry Kleeman, Jennifer McGregor, Arthur Miller,
James Shearron
editor: Arthur Miller photography: Marcus Norman design: Robson Design, Inc.
2025–2026
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Henry Kleeman
President
Brian Norton Immediate Past President Laura V. Luce
Susannah Sullivan
VP Advocacy
Kelsey Kleinert Arthur H. Miller VP Communications
Jan Gibson Patti Poth
VP Development
Stephen Bedrin Jim Opsitnik VP Programs
Gina Zisook Secretary Timothy Knight
Treasurer
DIRECTORS
Raymond Buschmann Perry Georgopoulos Tom Gleason
Jennifer Karras Dawn Kimbrel
- Nicholas Loope Max Lynch
Robin Norkus Ann Phillips Karla Schwartz James Shearron Nadine Shepard
HONORARY DIRECTORS
Pauline Mohr Shirley Paddock Linda Shields
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Jennifer M. McGregor
The Lake Forest Preservation Foundation is a tax-exempt nonprofit 501(c)3 organization. You may donate directly to us at LFPF.org.
PRESERVATION
SUMMER 2025
VOLUME 20, NUMBER 2
contributors: Susan Banks, Jan Gibson, Henry Kleeman, Jennifer McGregor, Arthur Miller,
James Shearron
editor: Arthur Miller photography: Marcus Norman design: Robson Design, Inc.Late Summer Garden Stroll/
Stanley Anderson 100th Anniversary
Sunday, August 17, 2025
2:00 p.m. Program at Gorton Center fol-lowed by walking tour from 3:00–5:00 p.m.
$65/members; $75 non-members
Join us for a unique celebration of the 100th anniversary of Stanley Anderson’s architectural firm. The program will include a presentation about the firm and his work, followed by a walking tour in Deerpath Hill Estates and a Reception at the former home of Stanley Anderson.
