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(More customer reviews)This is a good book, well put together book on a fabled Chicago suburb. I would have liked to have seen more pictures and better quality in the photos. The research is top notch and I enjoyed reading the text, but I expected more and for some reason that I can't quite put my finger on I was a bit disappointed. I usually go back to my books over and over again to paruse the pictures and scan the text, but I have not found myself doing that with this book and I don't know exactly why, because I normally love these kinds of books. Anyway, it is a fine book and maybe it's just me.
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On Lake Michigan's North Shore, an extraordinary group of cosmopolitan and wealthy clients commissioned havens from the city's bustle during the Gilded Age.
Classic Country Estatesof Lake Forest is the first systematic study ofthis richly textured built environment.Beginning with suburban villas in the manner ofAndrew Jackson Downing, Lake Forest wastransformed by the work of Henry Ives Cobb,Howard Van Doren Shaw, David Adler, Harrie T.Lindeberg, Charles A. Platt, Holabird &Roche, Delano & Aldrich, Arthur Heun, andothers. It was also distinguished by a tradition of innovation in landscape design, from theoriginal Romantic picturesque town plan of 1857to the later estate work of O. C. Simonds, theOlmsteds, Warren Manning, Rose Standish Nichols, and Jens Jensen. Architectural renderings,landscape plans, drawings, and periodphotographs of architecture and gardens, many of them not previously published, illustrate thework of these masters.
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