This is a version by Marshall & Fox, ca. 1921, of a Tudor-Stuart period English great hall for the 1901 Franklin P. Smith estate. The ceiling has molded plaster, though more in a later baroque mode than the typical strapwork one might find with…
This view looks east from the early 1920s built, Marshall & Fox designed entertaining room across the pool to the landscape leading northeast to Deerpath. On the right is a new formal garden, in the center the pool, and on the left the apparently…
In the early 1920s Franklin P. and Daisy Durand Smith engaged Marshall & Fox, Chicago architects, to make additions and improvements to their estate. The changes were to the south, a great hall or entertaining room, a pool, and gardens (now…
This view looks north along the porch/colonade east of the Smith house and terrace, as seen in 1905. The piers at each end, shingled, define the four corners, with four Tuscan columns on each side evenly spaced in between. The effect recalls English…
This view of the Franklin P. Smith estate from ca. 1901 looks north at the tile-floored terrace between the 1901 Smith house on the left and the "east porch" on the right. Shown are two unsual benches, south and north, with a reflecting pool between…
This is an interior view of the apparently east-facing dining room of the 1901 Franklin P. Smith estate house, on East Deerpath (700 block, south side; demolished). This interior in a Tudor/Stuart-period manner may reflect ca. 1920 work on the house…
The 1900-1901 house of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin P. (Daisy Durand) Smith is shown here, from the east and seeing the east side of the house and its pergola/porch. The architect has not been determined. The image is a gift from Carol Blomquist, from…
Shown is the entry from Deerpath to the the Franklin P. Smith estate, Lake Forest, Illinois, in 1952. Mr. Smith, who married Daisy Durand, was in the iron fence business. The house shown was built east of the H. C. Durand house, Daisy's parents'…
Shown are Mrs. and Mr. Henry Clay Durand, and Daisy Durand (adopted daughter, later Mrs. Franklin P. Smith), 1890s. They appear in their two horse open carriage in front of a house with an 1870s style veranda. The house may be theirs, at…