Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
From the record
“The Lake Forest Historic District is a national historic district encompassing much of the original town area of Lake Forest, Illinois. The district is primarily residential, though it also includes three educational institutions and two significant commercial districts.”
Wikipedia article Lake Forest Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 98 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1978 · category: District.
National Register reference number.78001161- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
And the following persons were appointed a committee to draft articles of association, viz. : Hiram F. Mather, John H. Kedzie and H. G. Shumway. Meanwhile the Trustees appointed as aforesaid proceeded, by direction of the subscribers, to make purchases of land, the location having been determined upon at the present site of Lake Forest.
The land purchased for the association originally comprised about 1,300 acres, situated in Section 3, Township 44, and Sections 27, 28, 33 and 34, Range 12, in Lake County, lying on Lake Michigan, extending back across the Milwaukee Division of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad. It was divided between the Lake Forest Association and the University afterward organized.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lake Forest Historic District
between 2017 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Debris and open burning
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lake Forest, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 hail.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Minor street flooding was reported in Highland Park including Tanglewood Court, Taylor Avenue and Tennyson Lane. Storm total rainfall of 1.55 inches was measured one mile south of Highwood.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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