Lake Forest 
Designed by Frost & Granger 
ory trees. When the 
founders of the Uni¬ 
versity decided to lay 
out a regular settle¬ 
ment, Frederick Olm¬ 
sted was consulted, 
and, on his advice, Mr. 
H otchkiss of St. Louis, 
who, as landscape ar¬ 
chitect, had designed 
the drives of Green¬ 
wood Cemetery in that 
city, was employed to 
lay out a village in park 
style. This work was completed in the sum¬ 
mer of 1857. Taking the paths of ravines as 
his motive, Mr. Hotchkiss abandoned the 
checker-board plan of regular squares, then in 
vogue, and laid out winding roads in conformity 
with the ravines and the general slope of the 
land. 
The wisdom of such a plan has been many 
times proven. Wealthy citizens of Chicago 
were soon attracted by the possibilities of the 
place, and began to build summer homes 
where they could spend at least six months of 
the year among beautiful natural surroundings 
and, at the same time, keep a watchful eye upon 
their business interests in the growing city only 
twenty-eight miles southward. 
For many years the houses were extremely 
simple, and only intended for summer occu¬ 
pancy. The advent of golf, however, pro¬ 
duced a rapid change. A number of city men, 
who were lovers of 
sport, looked over the 
country in search of a 
suitable site for a per- 
manent g o1f and 
country club. At this 
time the architect, 
Henry Ives Cobb, 
owned a substantial 
home along the old 
Green Bay Road west 
of the Village of Lake 
Forest. The situation 
THE CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AT LAKE FOREST 
Designed by Frost & Granger 
was in every way 
adapted for an all¬ 
round country club, 
as, west of the Green 
Bay Road, which runs 
along a natural height 
THE WINTER CLUB 
THE TOWN HALL AND FIRE STATION 
Designed by Frost Granger 
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