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Lake Forest Library’s distinctive dome roof element was rehabilitated in 2023, after several years of being covered by a series of temporary tarps.

The Annual Meeting was held on May 5, 2024, and included a presentation of this year’s Historic Preservation Award winners.

Both Gorton Center and the Preservation Foundation are products of the national Bicentennial era re-appreciation of community conservation heritage.

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.

Thanks to Forest & Bluff magazine and especially to Erin Donaldson, Editor in Chief, for helping to spread the “Preservation Matters” word!

A Well-Built Life, written by Sherry Thomas, is an article that offers a “last word” perspective on the life of the renowned playwright Arthur Miller.

Between 1903 and 1907, the Cummings family developed, with architect F. W. Perkins, their main house on the bluff east of 1490 N. Lake Rd., and this outbuilding east end now at 1490, the latter an outbuilding garage and staff lodge on the second floor.