This is an Inland Architect and News Record photograph of the just completed Reid Hall, 1893, for Lake Forest Academy on its new campus, and facing north to Rosemary Road. The architects were Pond & Pond, Irving K. Pond, designer.  Today this is Lake Forest College's South Campus (since 1948) and the site is occupied by, approximately, by Nollen Hall (1960s, 2001).  This view is from prior to completion of the landscaping by O.C. Simonds.  The building was donated by Mrs. Simon Somerville Reid (1829-1892) in memory of her spouse, notable Chicago wholesale grocer (Reid, Murdoh & Co., Monarch Foods), Scots-born S. S. Reid, who died in February, 1892. The bulding burned in 1946 and ultimately led to the move of the Academy to its fourth and current location in town, the former J. Ogden Armour estate, Mellody Farm.  In 1948 the 1893 campus was sold to Lake Forest College.  Until 1925 the preparatory Academy and the College, along with the also prepartatory (women) Ferry Hall nearby, all were units of Lake Forest University, founded in 1857.   

Reid Hall was the main academic building for the new Academy campus by Pond & Pond and Simons.