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Villa Turicum - Exteriors
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In 1907 Harold McCormick bought a 260 acre site, including a 70-foot bluff on. Charles Platt (1861-1933), an architect and landscape architect from New Hampshire who had had his sketches of Italian Renaissance gardens popularized in a 1893 Harper’s Magazine. And via his own 1894 book, Italian Gardens,. Was hired to execute plans for the house and landscape. Harold McCormick wrote to Charles Platt: Mrs. McC. Platt created master plans for. 1922-1930), and the. It was great to feel the vision of Charles Pl...
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Society of Architectural Historians - Chicago Chapter: September 2014
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Society of Architectural Historians - Chicago Chapter. The Chicago Chapter of the international non-profit Society of Architectural Historians is a membership organization that is open to scholars, professionals and amateur architecture buffs. The SAH Chicago Chapter hosts events, tours, lectures and publishes a newsletter. FALL 2014 EVENTS: LAKE FOREST ELEGANCE, MODERN HOUSES, EVANSTON WALK, RUIN PORN. Lake Forest Preservation Foundation Presents. 4 Historic Homes, 5 Gardens and Reception. Where: Meet a...
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The Villa Turicum Blog: The Other Side of the Footlights
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The Villa Turicum Blog. Dedicated to Edith Rockefeller McCormick and the Villa Turicum. 09 June, 2014. The Other Side of the Footlights. Early in 1927 it was announced in the New York Times: "Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick of Chicago, long a patron of the world of music, has again stepped to the other side of the musical footlights." In collaboration with her fellow music aficionado and neighbor, Eleanor Everest Freer. Was she thinking of when she wrote it:. I write not to thee dearest,. I Write Not to...
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The Villa Turicum Blog: Muriel in Lake Forest
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The Villa Turicum Blog. Dedicated to Edith Rockefeller McCormick and the Villa Turicum. 07 July, 2014. Muriel in Lake Forest. Muriel McCormick in her early twenties. The Tribune's report of July 12th concluded: She went as far as New York with the McKinlocks to bid them adieu at the dock, and then spent the weekend just past with her grandfather, John D. Rockefeller at his beautiful estate on the Hudson. She is to return tomorrow to this part of the world, to take up the work with which she'll fi...View ...
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The Villa Turicum Blog: A Few Words on Charles A. Platt
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The Villa Turicum Blog. Dedicated to Edith Rockefeller McCormick and the Villa Turicum. 29 May, 2014. A Few Words on Charles A. Platt. It falls me by that it has been awhile since I have written anything about Charles A. Platt, the man responsible for creating Villa Turicum. Writing about him does present a daunting task, as Platt was not only an architect, but also an accomplished artist of merit and that. Charles A. Platt, self-portrait. Villa Lante, in Bagnaia, Italy c. In 1894 he made it plain therei...
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The Villa Turicum Blog: Garden Show Held At Villa Turicum
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The Villa Turicum Blog. Dedicated to Edith Rockefeller McCormick and the Villa Turicum. 14 July, 2014. Garden Show Held At Villa Turicum. June 22, 1930 - LAKE FOREST matrons who attended the garden show held last week-end at Villa Turicum, Mrs. Rockefeller McCormick's estate, included Mrs. T. Philip Swift, Mrs. Stuart J. Templeton, and Mrs. Charles F. Glore. Mrs. Glore's daughter, Frances assisted at the flower market. Mrs Stuart J. Templeton. Mrs Charles F. Glore and Frances Glore. Mrs T Philip Swift.
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Villa Turicum - Exteriors
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In 1907 Harold McCormick bought a 260 acre site, including a 70-foot bluff on. Charles Platt (1861-1933), an architect and landscape architect from New Hampshire who had had his sketches of Italian Renaissance gardens popularized in a 1893 Harper’s Magazine. And via his own 1894 book, Italian Gardens,. Was hired to execute plans for the house and landscape. Harold McCormick wrote to Charles Platt: Mrs. McC. Platt created master plans for. 1922-1930), and the. It was great to feel the vision of Charles Pl...
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Society of Architectural Historians - Chicago Chapter: FALL 2014 EVENTS: LAKE FOREST ELEGANCE, MODERN HOUSES, EVANSTON WALK, RUIN PORN
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Society of Architectural Historians - Chicago Chapter. The Chicago Chapter of the international non-profit Society of Architectural Historians is a membership organization that is open to scholars, professionals and amateur architecture buffs. The SAH Chicago Chapter hosts events, tours, lectures and publishes a newsletter. FALL 2014 EVENTS: LAKE FOREST ELEGANCE, MODERN HOUSES, EVANSTON WALK, RUIN PORN. Lake Forest Preservation Foundation Presents. 4 Historic Homes, 5 Gardens and Reception. Where: Meet a...
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The Villa Turicum Blog: June 17th, 1915
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The Villa Turicum Blog. Dedicated to Edith Rockefeller McCormick and the Villa Turicum. 16 June, 2014. June 17th, 1915. It would take another six years. Chicago Daily Tribune; Jun 17, 1915. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Historical Society. Lake Forest Preservation Foundation. Friends of Historic Second Church. Society of Architectural Historians. The Benjamin Marshall Society. Zachary Taylor Davis: Chicago Architect.
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