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2012 Summer Newsletter
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2012 Summer Newsletter

In May, we celebrated National Preservation Month and for the 22nd time present the Preservation Foundation Awards. In this issue,
we recognize the twelve exceptional properties that comprise the 2012 Preservation Foundation Award recipients.

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2012 Spring Newsletter
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2012 Spring Newsletter

The lovely and historic Schweppe Mansion was the site for Lake Forest Preservation Foundation’s Annual Holiday celebration on December 4th.

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2011 Fall Newsletter
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2011 Fall Newsletter

A small group of interested Lake Forest College and community
members recently saw the need to restore an over-a-centuryoperating
reflecting pool and its terrace at the College’s Glen Rowan
House.

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2011 Summer Newsletter
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2011 Summer Newsletter

On a beautiful Sunday afternoon in
May, members and guests of the Lake Forest Preservation Foundation enjoyed the Rumsey Estate Gardens and Ravine Tour at the historic Lake Forest property.

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2011 Spring Newsletter
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2011 Spring Newsletter

Restoration of the historic downtown Train Station will begin in a few months! In early November, the City of Lake Forest was awarded an $835,090 Federal grant for the
restoration of the Station through the Illinois Transportation
Enhancement Program (ITEP).

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2010 Fall Newsletter
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2010 Fall Newsletter

In December 2010, Lake Forest’s beautiful Church of St. Mary
celebrates the centennial of its dedication on Sunday, December
11, 1910 by Archbishop Quigley of the Chicago Archdiocese.

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2010 Spring Newsletter
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2010 Spring Newsletter

Lake Forest is a city of many
churches, whose edifices reflect a rich and varied spiritual, architectural and cultural heritage dating back over a century and a half.

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2009 Fall Newsletter
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2009 Fall Newsletter

The recently announced decision by the U.S. Postal Service to sell its Lake Forest Art Deco building, adjacent to historic Market Square (1916), signals an end to a tenure of over three-quarters of a century in this location.

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2009 Summer Newsletter
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2009 Summer Newsletter

Sullivan’s former Carson’s building in the Loop. The firm’s highly-disciplined investigative work and its architects’ skill in seeing possibilities for restoration and renewal of this iconic “fourth” but also “first” (built) side of internationally-significant
Market Square have yielded many new insights and stimulated a
level of research pursuit including use of the internet heretofore
unparalleled locally.

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