Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest: Architecture and Landscape Design, 1856-1940
- ISBN-10
- 0393730999
- ISBN-13
- 9780393730999
- Category
- Architecture, Domestic
- Pages
- 312
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Authors
- Arthur H. Miller, Kim Coventry, Daniel Meyer
Description
A richly illustrated overview of the unique architectural styles and landscaping exemplified in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century estates of Lake Forest, Illinois, offering a tour of fabulous estates, gardens, country clubs, and gentlemen's farms that have made the community a landmark.
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