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9 Market Square

Year of award: 2005Award category: InfillOriginal architect: Peregrine Bryant, London, England / Steven Wright, Lake ForestYear built: 2003-2004This award is given for an 2003-2004 addition to the Krafft Building, which was designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw and built in 1916. The addition encompassses a Georgian facade and winter garden that provide a destination in Market Square Court. It connects the new 9 Market Square to the original Krafft Building in a way that continues the architectural traditions of Market Square.

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776-778 N. Green Bay Road

Across the street is the entrance to 776-778 N. Green Bay RoadYear of award: 2013Award category: RestorationOriginal architect: Howard Van Doren ShawYear built: 1910Restoration architect: Virgil McDowellThese were the gatehouses to the Walter Brewster estate of 1910. The main house was built on the site of the original 1837 Cole cabin owned by the parents of Mary Swanton/Atteridge who succeeded to the farm after them. Walter Brewster’s wife, Kate Lancaster Brewster, was founder of the Garden Club of Illinois (1912), a predecessor of the Lake Forest Garden Club; of the Garden Club of America (1913); of the Bulletin of the GCA, which she edited and funded; and founder and promoter of the LFGC's Foundations for Architecture and Landscape Architecture (1926-35). The house was sited by the Olmsted organization, west of the existing pond and looking west toward the Skokie River, with gatehouses sited east of the pond on Green Bay Road. Over the years significant changes ooccurred to to the gatehouses and in 1953 they were subdivided into two separate propert. In the 60's the garage was altered with two of the four garage door openings bricked up; the structure was converted to a residence. Significant changes were also made to the Gardener’s Cottage, including a two-story garage addition, a new entry vestibule and removal and replacement of all the original windows with large expanses of thermo-pane glass. The current owners have re-united the two properties, restored the window openings to their original proportions with new single-glazed true divided light windows and recreated much of Shaw’s original design, while also modifying later additions to make them sympathetic to the original.

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Entrance to 902 and 904 N. Green Bay Road

Across the street is the entrance to two Howard van Doren Shaw designed homes.

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902 N. Green Bay Road

Year of award: 2017Award category: REHABILITATIONOriginal architect: Howard Van Doren ShawYear built: 1911This distinctive brick and limestone residence, known as Clinola was home to three generations of Donnelley owners from 1911 to 2008 before being purchased and rehabbed by the current owners. Non historic additions and alterations to the house were replaced with more historically appropriate improvements and the exterior facades restored. The original south garden room trellis work by Shaw has been preserved and replanted on various occasions, most recently by landscape architect Charles Stick.

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81 W. Laurel Road House of Four Winds

Across the street is The House of Four Winds which has been awarded two Preservation Awards. One for its home preservation in 1997 and another for restoration of its garden in 2007.Home Preservaton:Year of award: 1997Award category: PreservationOriginal architect: Howard Van Doren ShawYear built: 1908The owners were cited for their preservation of House of the Four Winds, an Arts and Crafts-style house designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw in 1908. The house was a summer residence of Hugh Johnson McBirney, president of the National Lead Company, who lived on Chicago's Prairie Avenue.Garden Restoration: Year of award: 2007Award category: RestorationOriginal architect: Garden - Rose Standish NicholsYear built: 1909Restoration architect: Landscaping - Craig Bergmann/Masonry by FernandoThe pool foundations and walls were restored, and new plantings were designed with historic integrity at this Howard Van Doren Shaw house.

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1230 N. Green Bay Road

Across the street is the entrance to Ragdale.Year of award:2012Award category:RenovationOriginal architect:Howard Van Doren ShawYear built:1897Restoration architect:Johnson & LaskyIn 2011, The Ragdale House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, underwent a $3.2 million renovation which restored the public rooms to their 1926 charm. The Ragdale House was built in 1897 by Howard Van Doren Shaw, noted architect in the English Arts and Crafts tradition, as his Lake Forest summer home and is one of the most complete examples of a turn-of-the-century retreat in the United States. “Operation Renovation” has preserved the structural integrity and functionality of the home. The extensive renovation included replacement of wiring and plumbing, window restoration, roof reinforcement and installation of a state-of-the-art geothermal heating and cooling system. With The Ragdale House re-opening in May, it will once again host up to 200 resident artists a year.Award category: InfillOriginal architect: IIT Associate Professor Frank Flury and a team of IIT architecture studentsThe original Meadow Studio was designed and built in 1943 by architect John Lord King for Sylvia Shaw Judson, daughter of Howard Van Doren Shaw. The structure served as a sculpture studio for Ms. Judson for 35 years. Upon her death in 1976, ownership was transferred to Alice Ryerson Hayes and later the Ragdale Foundation. Mounting structural and maintenance problems dictated demolishing the original studio in favor of a replacement facility. The new studio, a collaborative effort between the Foundation and IIT architectural students, sits atop the footprint of the original studio. Windows and a skylight create a form similar to the original. Natural cedar was used, which when weathered, will blend into its prairie surroundings

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1260 N. Green Bay Road

Across the street located on the Ragdale propertyYear of award: 2006Award category: RehabilitationOriginal architect: Howard Van Doren ShawRestoration architect: David WoodhouseThe Ragdale Barnhouse was designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw in 1897 as part of the Ragdale summer retreat for the Shaw family. The barn house buildings served to house the farm animals and equipment used on the property. The barn house buildings were converted into a residence in 1939 by Shaw's son-in-law John Lord King and underwent further renovations in 1950. The Ragdale Foundation undertook the current rehabilitation project in 2004-2005. A 1950's cement-block garage was demolished to make way for the ADA accessible live-in studio. The damaged sections of the building were rebuilt using historically accurate materials, returning the facade to Shaw's original design.

Howard Van Doren Shaw in Lake Forest
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