Traditional Building Conference, Deer Path Inn, May 10-11

This series of conferences by the publishers of Traditional Building, Old House Journal, and Arts & Crafts Homes, will be visiting Lake Forest, headquartered at the Deerpath inn, with afternoon tours both days. These conferences occur three times a year in notable centers of traditional building, with the last one in Newport, RI, and the two after this in 2023 in Oyster Bay, NY, the location of Theodore Roosevelt’s Sagamore Hill estate, and in Savannah, Georgia. As most recently highlighted in the 2022 local guide Architectural Lake Forest, Lake Forest fits tidily into this group of towns for its outstanding classic and historically styled residences and buildings. Fitting well into a cohort of eastern towns, Lake Forest leads in this architectural field in Chicago and much of the northwestern Midwest region.

With 150 attendees expected, the tours of downtown and the adjacent mostly residential west end of the 1970s Lake Forest National Register Historic District, these architects, restorers, and craftspeople will be highly visible those days. The LFPF welcomes these experts to our ensemble of worthy traditionally built and rehabbed houses and buildings.

For more information, about attending and joining tours including for AIA continuing education credit, go to www.traditionalbuildingshow.com