This is an unpaginated twenty-four-page booklet, published in 1910, for the "Alice Home, Lake Forest Hospital," on the grounds of Lake Forest University (Lake Forest College, Middle Campus), demolished 1965 after serving as a College residence hall. The cottage hospital, a type of rural hospital originated in England in the mid 19th C., opened in 1899 in a building provided by a donation from Mrs. Henry C. Durand "as a memorial to my sister, Alice Bursdal Burhans;..." [p. 5]. It was for the "use and benefit of anyone connected with the University, who may be sick; also for such residents of the city of Lake Forest, in case of sickness, as may be allowed admission thereto, by a board of three (3) trustees, and their successors...." (At that time Lake Forest had a sizable African-American population; it's not clear if they would be served). The building was designed by Frost and Granger, and an addition was made later, 1920s, by Charles S. Frost. A nurses' residence, known as Bradley Lodge, was added adjacent in the later 1920s. It was re-purposed as faculty and student housing in 1942 and today is known as Cleveland-Young Hall (architect Anderson & Ticknor/Stanley D. Anderson '16). A treasurer's report from 1899 to Jan. 1, 1910 appears on [p. 20].  The booklet appears to be the work of A. C. Haven, M.D., President, Alice Home, on January 1, 1910.

When the hospital board sought to further expand the building in the late 1930s, the College did not agree. A new site was sought, with a new hospital by Anderson & Ticknor opening in 1942 west of Route 41 and north of Deerpath on land donated by the A. B. Dick family from the Westmoreland estate.  

Call number: Spec. Coll. RA 982 .L25 A44 1910