One of series of articles on Lake Forest estates (Lake Forest Country Places) published in Helen Yomine's Lake Forest Journal, between 1994 and 1999. This article was number 2.  Mrs. Yomine is the spouse of the late Daniel Yomine of Lake Forest.

The article is titled with the the name "Eleswhere," an incorrect designation.  Elsewhere was the west central Lake County, Illinois, country retreat of the Hamills, after ca. 1940, now owned by architect Adrian and his psouse Nancy Smith of Lake Forest.  For more, see the article by Arthur H. Miller in David Adler, Architect: The Elements of Style, ed. Martha Thorne (Yale Univ. Press and the Art institute of Chicago, 2002) and the finding aid for the Alfred Hamill papers at Chicago's Newberry Library, relating to Alexandra Fredericks: http://mms.newberry.org/html/Hamill.html . 

In an interview in Lake Forest ca. Fall, 1972, with Mrs. Hamill, Miller was led to believe that the Centaurs tower was called Elsewhere.  She told him, and Ruth (Mrs. Edwin) Winter who introduced him, that elsewhere was the tower with its study, and that when callers asked for Mr. Hamilll  the butler told them he was elsewhere.  Friends knew he was in the tower.  It became clear much later, at the time of the writing of the article on Centraurs for the Adler book, 2002, that Mr. Hamill met Ms. Fredericks at Elsewhere, a fact that Mrs. Hamill was not comfortable discussing with Miller, who she had jsut met. Because the Newberry (where Mr. Hamill had been board presdient) also employed Ms. Fredericks after Mr. Hamill's 1953 death, Mrs. Hamill donated much of her late spouse's book collection, 6,500 volumes, to Lake Forest College's library, 1955, including titles with a distinctive bookplate of Elsewhere, the reason for Miller's 1972 query about the location of that place.  Only Hamill's gypsy and calligraphy collections, as mentioned in his will, were transferred from Centaurs to the Newberry.