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Franklin P. Smith Estate, Deerpath, Lake Forest, Illinois--house 'Dining room '52'
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…
Franklin P. Smith estate, Deerpath, Lake Forest, Illinois--Terrace between house and east porch
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…
Franklin P. Smith estate, Deerpath, Lake Forest, Illinois--'East Porch 1905'
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…
Franklin P. Smith estate, Deerpath, Lake Forest, Illinois--Great Hall exterior and pool, 1920s
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…
Franklin P. Smith estate, Deerpath, Lake Forest, Illinois--Great Hall interior, 1920s
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…
Franklin P. Smith estate, Deerpath, Lake Forest--Formal garden south of Great Hall, 1920s
Garden apparently designed by Marshall & Fox in the early 1920s for the Franklin P. Smiths, Deerpath, Lake Forest. The garden was situated south of the new pool and Great Hall, and north of the ravine on the Smiths' estate. Its features include…
Durand/Smith estate, Deerpath, Lake Forest, Illinois--Arbor
This view displays a garden allee or arbor, dating from ca. 1900 and situated on the estate that was the Henry Clay Durands' after 1875 and by 1901 the Franklin P. Smiths', on the southwest corner of Deerpath and Mayflower Road. The original Henry C.…
Two Women and a Fool publisher's poster, ca. 1895, Stone & Kimball, publisher, Chicago
This is a poster publicizing a Stone & Kimball (Chicago) novel by Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor, illustrated by C. D. (Charles Dana) Gibson, entitled, Two Women and a Fool: http://www.archive.org/stream/twowomenafool00chatgoog#page/n10/mode/2up The…
Lewis H. Brown (Johns Manville) Lake Forest College Commencement speech, May 26, 1945: "Freedom or Planned Economy -- There is No Middle Road"
New York based Lewis H. Brown received an honorary L.L.D. degree from Lake Forest College on May 26, 1945 and delivered the Commencement address to the graduates. His company had a major manufacturing facility for asbestos at Waukegan harbor and he…