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Location of Lake County in Illinois. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lake County, Illinois. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lake County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
Roughly bounded by Western, Westleigh, Lake Michigan, and N city limits, Lake Forest, Illinois Coordinates 42°15′03″N 87°49′40″W / 42.25083°N 87.82778°W / 42.25083; -87
The oldest Inn in Lake Forest which is still in operation today as The Deer Path Inn, was established in 1894 in a residence for Col. William Sage Johnston. Shortly afterward, the house was moved one block to the north to make way for the Gorton School.
The Western Satraps, or Western Kshatrapas (Brahmi:, Mahakṣatrapa, "Great Satraps") were Indo-Scythian rulers of the western and central parts of India (extending from Saurashtra in the south and Malwa in the east, covering modern-day Sindh, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh states), between 35 and 415 CE.
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]
The Helen Shedd Reed House, also known as the Mrs. Kersey Coates Reed House, is a historic house at 1315 N. Lake Road in Lake Forest, Illinois.Built in 1931–32, the house was the home of Helen Shedd Reed and her children; it replaced a 19th-century house called Elsinore where Reed and her husband Kersey Coates Reed had lived until the latter's death in 1929.
Photo is from the 1890's supplied by Lakes Region Historical Society, Lake County, IL. This Trail Marker Tree was one in a long line of Trees that helped lead the Native Americans of the area from the Highland Park area on towards West Lake Forest and Mettawa towards the Chain of Lakes and Antioch, and finally directing them on to Lake Geneva, WI.
The Noble Judah Estate is a historic estate at 111 and 211 West Westminster Street in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States. The estate was built from 1925 to 1928 for lawyer Noble Brandon Judah, his wife and National Cash Register heiress Dorothy Patterson, and their children. It includes a main house, a garden, a pool, and several small ...