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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--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, 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--'Porte Cochere Seat 1905'
Donated by Carol Blomquist, from a Durand/Smith family photo archive from the late Daisiana Smith Giles.
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--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…
Frank Lloyd Wright's Home and Studio (Chicago/Forest Avenues, Oak Park, IL).
See http://gowright.org/home-and-studio.htmlfor more details.
Francis Shaw posing
Series of four photographs, all subjects posing in Dutch costume
Francis D. Weeks, Highand Park (IL) Global Travel Slides (732 total), Preliminiary Listing, 2005.
Francis D. Weeks (d. 1990) traveled globally in the early years of jet travel, before mass international travel overtook many sites. His slides show details not available in books for locations such as the Taj Mahal, sites that indeed may not be as…
Frances Wells Shaw at Lake Forest
Mounted on cardboard. Full size of sketch located at Ragdale. Actual piece located at Ragdale 2001.