Lake Forest: Estates, People, and Culture
- ISBN-10
- 0738507938
- ISBN-13
- 9780738507934
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Arcadia Publishing
- Authors
- Arthur H. Miller, Shirley MacDonald Paddock
Description
Introduction -- Beginnings: New England village. -- The gilded age: 1865-1885 -- American renaissance: 1885-1896 -- The great estate era: 1897-1917 -- The great estates: village and townspeople -- Market Square -- Great estate life-cycles: three stories.
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