Accomplishments

LFPF Board Member Bill and Lyn Redfield were honored with the 2012 Richard H. Driehaus Preservation Foundation Award for Stewardship of the House of the Four Winds.

The House of the Four Winds was designed in 1909 by Howard Van Doren Shaw with gardens designed by Rose Standish Nichols. The Redfields' home and gardens were celebrated as an example of excellence in Illinois preservation at Landmarks Illinois' annual Richard H. Driehaus Preservation Awards ceremony on October 27 at the... Read more

We are pleased to announce that an $835,090 federal grant has been awarded to the City of Lake Forest through the Illinois Transportation Enhancement Program (ITEP) for the restoration of the historic Lake Forest Train Station. Constructed in 1899, the train station was designed by Lake Forest residents Charles S. Frost and Alfred H. Granger, architects for the Chicago & North Western Railroad.

The Lake Forest Preservation Foundation recognized the station was in desperate need... Read more

The Lake Forest Preservation Foundation is proud to have funded the 2009  Historic Structure Report by Gunny Harboe for the renovation of the East Lake Forest train station. This document has been used as a resource for the necessary repairs, updates, and renovations.

Thanks to the generosity of Lake Bluff resident John Bryan, a 165-year-old log cabin formerly located on Mills Court in Lake Forest will be preserved, and future generations will be able to enjoy what is perhaps the oldest surviving Lake Forest home. The cabin was moved to a wooded grove near Lake Michigan on Crab Tree Farm in Lake Bluff.

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In cooperation with the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society, $2,500 was donated for the Elawa Farm Barn historical display (pictured) 1401 West Middlefork Drive.

In the same year, a $10,000 grant was made to Lake Forest College to help fund a campus-wide preservation planning document.