2015 Spring Newsletter

Early Spring 2015 Bridge Over Troubled Waters Celebrating Preservation LFPF members and guests enjoyed a behind-the-scenes tour of the recently renovated Historic Genesee Theatre and Celebrating Preservation LFPF members and guests enjoyed a behind-the-scenes tour of the recently renovated Historic Genesee Theatre From the President thanks to the support of our members, other community supporters, and community organizations, 2014 was an outstanding year for the Preservation Foundation as friends and neighbors joined generous homeowners to make the Fall Historic Home and Garden Tour in the elegant Ridge Lane neighborhood a resounding success while Foundation members and friends generously supported the Annual Fund campaign with a record-breaking $28,000 ensuring support for Lake Forest’s future by preserving its past through preservation projects, leading the Board to contribute $5,000 to the Forest Park Project and initiate a Heritage Fund to accept community applications for grants to support preservation projects at www.lfpf.org, eleven homeowners received Preservation Awards recognizing dedication and stewardship, the annual Holiday Celebration welcomed members to a first-ever look at the beautifully restored James Ward Thorne house and an introduction to Mrs. Thorne’s World of Miniatures by Sally Sexton Kalmbach, Annual Holiday Celebration LPPF Members celebrated the holiday season at the beautifully restored James Ward Thorne house Photos by Cappy Johnston, we welcome the community to join us as members and residents who care about the future of Lake Forest’s treasured historic architecture, landscapes, and amenities, please support preservation by submitting nominations for our annual Preservation Awards and plan to join interesting and educational events including our Annual Meeting, volunteer for preservation projects, renew during our annual Membership Drive because your support helps secure the future of the special qualities we love about Lake Forest, Gail Hodges celebrating Preservation, New for 2015 LFPF Heritage Fund recognizing the visual character of Lake Forest defined by civic art and architecture from buildings to streetscapes and parks, the HERITAGE FUND gives Lake Foresters an opportunity to nominate endangered local treasures for grant funding awarded each April based on need and impact, Preservation EARLY SPRING 2015 VOLUME 8 NUMBER 1 Contributors Peter Coutant Maureen Grinnell Gail Hodges Marcy Kerr Arthur Miller Photography Cappy Johnston and Lisa Staton Lake Forest Preservation Foundation 400 East Illinois Road Lake Forest Illinois 60045 www.lfpf.org, Bridge Over Troubled Waters describes a preservation debate on Lake Road near Woodbine Lane where a century-old bridge built around 1913-14 likely influenced by Howard Van Doren Shaw and coinciding with the Clayton Mark House designed by the Shaw firm faces replacement by the City of Lake Forest with IDOT funding, alternative concepts eliminate the three closed spandrel arches and the unique height profile and spacing of the railing and balustrade system and the single sidewalk alignment, replacing them with a single open-spandrel arch, taller railings, solid panels and sidewalks on both sides driven by IDOT standards despite the bridge’s significance within the National Register Historic District and its intentional illusion of flying over ravines envisioned in the 1857 town plan by Almerin Hotchkiss, the Foundation urges discussion to ensure renovation is consistent with historic character and invites comments via Facebook or [email protected] Photo by Lisa Stanton, we would like to thank our 2014 members donors volunteers and sponsors membership annual fund docents and volunteers sponsors and in-kind donors every effort was made to list names correctly please contact 847-234-1230 or [email protected] if omitted, Lake Forest Renovation and Restoration 101 Sunday March 22 at 2:00PM Gorton Community Center free admission moderated by Arthur Miller with Cathy Czerniak Suzanne Germann Guy Berg and a local homeowner discussing permitting tax incentives and design professionals, vibrant historic communities quote by David Brown National Trust for Historic Preservation, if you are not a member please join us as we Educate Advocate and Fund preservation including over $2 million generated for the East Lake Forest train station restoration Castlegate Gates Forest Park and the Heritage Fund, LFPF partnering with the City on restoration of the 1857 town plan designed by Almerin Hotchkiss resting on a rare gravel clay moraine with ravine-bridging roads curvilinear streets converging at the depot one of the earliest large-scale planned communities predating Riverside and Pullman, grants supporting restoration of the Lake Forest Train Station Elawa Farm Ragdale Dickinson Hall Walden-Bluff’s Edge Bridge Deerpath Hill Estates Castlegate Court and historic gas lights, LAKE FOREST PRESERVATION FOUNDATION 2014-2015 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Executive Committee Gail T. Hodges President Maureen Grinnell VP Development Allison Derr Arthur H. Miller VP Programs Kristen Chun Secretary Fred Moyer Treasurer Directors Guy Berg Judy Boggess Stephen Bent Ingrid Bryzinski Peter Coutant Stephen Douglass Jan Gibson Jerry Henry Dennis Johnston Linda Liang Elizabeth Moore Alice Moulton-Ely Elizabeth Sperry Kent Woloson Honorary Directors Herbert Geist Pauline M. Mohr Shirley Paddock Linda Shields Lorraine Tweed Sarah Wimmer Executive Director Marcy Kerr Non-Profit Org U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 184 Lake Forest IL 60045 ECRWSS Residential Customer Lake Forest IL 60045, nominations for 2015 Historic Preservation Awards due by March 25th in categories Preservation Rehabilitation Restoration Reconstruction and New Construction or Infill submit at www.lfpf.org or 847-234-1230, LFPF has put together a full program of educational and inspiring preservation-related events for 2015 including Sunday March 22 Lake Forest Renovation and Restoration 101 Sunday April 26 Annual Meeting and 2015 Historic Preservation Awards Friday June 19 Summer Garden Stroll Friday August 28 Summer Garden Stroll Sunday September 20 Annual Architectural Home and Garden Tour advance ticket $85 day of event $100 Sunday December 6 Annual Member Holiday Celebration, together we can protect the historic visual character of Lake Forest for generations to come renew for 2015 or join at www.LFPF.org and check www.lfpf.org for additional information on upcoming events.