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Young Hall, the tallest building in the city of Lake Forest, houses most of the humanities departments on campus. Lake Forest College was founded in 1857 by Reverend Robert W. Patterson as a Presbyterian alternative to the Methodist Northwestern University in Evanston.
Ferry Hall's trustees stepped in and organized a major capital campaign that was intended to retire the mortgage still owed to Lake Forest College, eventually succeeding in the early 1950s. The centennial celebration of Ferry Hall in 1969 included such figures as Maria Tallchief and Gwendolyn Brooks. [11] The Ferry Hall Chapel.
Lake Forest was founded with Lake Forest College and was laid out as a town in 1857, a stop for travelers making their way south to Chicago. The Lake Forest City Hall, designed by Charles Sumner Frost, was completed in 1898. It originally housed the fire department, the Lake Forest Library, and city offices. [4]
James Aubrey (attended 1931–32), president of CBS and MGM; Charles Edmund Beard (1916), aviation pioneer and president of Braniff Airlines [7]; Andrew T. Berlin (1979), businessman and philanthropist; minority stakeholder in the Chicago Cubs Major League Baseball team
Barat College (1858–2005, Lake Forest, Illinois) Bush Conservatory of Music (1901–1932, Chicago) Central YMCA College (1922–1945, Chicago) The Chicago Conservatory College (1857–1981, Chicago) Chicago Technical College (1904–1977, Chicago) Evanston College for Ladies (1871–1873, Evanston, Illinois), merged with Northwestern ...
William Mather Lewis, class of 1900, former president of George Washington University and Lafayette College; Ralph J. Mills Jr., class of 1954, professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Edward Wingenbach, class of 1991, president of Hampshire College, former acting president and dean of faculty at Ripon College [1]
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The district also includes several buildings on the campus of Lake Forest College, the founding of which spurred the growth of Lake Forest, and Market Square, the country's first planned shopping center. [2] The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 26, 1978. [1]