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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.

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).

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.

2010 marks the 20th consecutive year of the Foundation’s Historic Preservation Awards program.

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.

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.

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.

Long before there was the idea of a preservation movement here in Lake Forest and during the development of the plan for Market Square (which could be considered early urban renewal), buildings were saved for future generations by being
transplanted to new locations and given new purposes, now known as adaptive reuse.

A small, elegant pavilion gracefully identifies West Park. Although small in size, its presence defines the park with its detailed brickwork and accents, dog-eared gables, and low overhangs.

Just a century ago next year, an epic civic development milestone volume, the Plan of Chicago, was published by the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Lake Forest’s train station on McKinley Road and Western Avenue
is a contributing structure in the Original Lake Forest National
Register Historic District established in 1976.

It was the recent demolition of the David Adler designed poultry house at Elawa Farm that brought Ms. Crowley’s words to mind. A part of the story of Elawa Farm was erased when the Poultry House fell to a wrecker’s ball.