Throughout our city are numerous examples of buildings placed on the grounds of former estates, farms, and business areas. Some of these have been built after removal of earlier buildings.
Allow me to introduce myself as the new President of your Preservation Foundation. I have lived in Lake Forest almost all my life. I went to grade school here and was graduated from Lake Forest College.
“In an ideal world…A cultured and educated public would have a natural affinity for the historical continuum, respecting the structures and places that connect us to our past and adapting them.”
Lake Forest is nationally recognized as a place of distinctive character. As one of the earliest planned communities in the United States, it has had, for over 140 years, a history of active planning to ensure the quality of its built and natural environments.
On December 19, 1996, the Lake Forest City Council voted unanimously to rehabilitate the historic Walden-Bluff’s Edge bridge.
Thanks to the continuing generous donations from hundreds of concerned Lake Foresters, Walden Bridge might well be saved!
A Founders’ Day Celebration On Founders’ Day, Sunday, August 4, at 4 p.m., the Lake Forest Foundation for Historic Preservation will celebrate 20 years of helping the community conserve its historic visual heritage by encouraging “progress through preservation.”
The Preservation Foundation is pleased to announce that we have now received final approval of our application to have a third district in Lake Forest listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
This spring, the Lake Forest Preservation Foundation asked the community to identify historic properties that exemplified outstanding restoration, preservation, and renovation efforts and to nominate their owners for the Foundation’s annual Preservation Awards.
The City of Lake Forest often is called “Special Place.” There is a sense of place here that is distinctive. Our community has beautiful natural and planned open space.