House and Garden 
andconstantly 
increasing pri¬ 
vate gifts. Al¬ 
most in the 
center of the 
village stands 
the Presby¬ 
terian Church 
fr o m which 
the village 
sprang. Three 
years ago an at¬ 
tractive Epis¬ 
copal Church 
was also built 
to fill thewants 
of a growing 
c o m m unity. 
As people began, here and there, to stay 
in the country during the winter, a club was 
recently formed for outdoor winter sports. 
It possesses a skating pond, about three hun¬ 
dred feet square, with good curling rinks, a 
toboggan slide, and ample clubhouse, with a 
ball-room, a stage for amateur theatricals, 
lounging and locker rooms, and bowling 
alleys. 
All of the improvements of the past ten or 
twelve years have been placed in the hands 
of trained architects, and have been carried 
out with an 
eye towards 
the permanent 
beauty of the 
village,sothat, 
today, Lake 
Forest is rec- 
o g niz e d as 
equaling in 
beauty any of 
the many at- 
tractivesubur- 
ban villages 
which group 
themselves 
around our 
growing 
American 
cities. It offers to its residents all of the deep¬ 
er blessings of church, home and school, away 
from the noise, turmoil and dirt of city life. 
That such communities are springing up 
everywhere is one of the most sure promises 
that our country is to become one of beauti¬ 
ful homes and gardens, where the busy man 
of the twentieth century can get away from 
the storm and stress of active business or 
professional life, and renew his wasted strength 
and energy only where it can be truly renewed, 
in “ God’s own out of doors.” A. H. G. 
THE RESIDENCE OF EDGAR M. STANTON, ESQ. 
Designed by Myron Hunt 
The Navy Yard Park , Havana 
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