Gardener Enoch Dunn mowing the lawn at 6 East Laurel Avenue

Photograph

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History Center of Lake Forest - Lake Bluff

In front of a large house, a man uses a lawnmower on a spacious grassy lawn.

In front of a large house, a man uses a lawnmower on a spacious grassy lawn.

Name/Title

Gardener Enoch Dunn mowing the lawn at 6 East Laurel Avenue

Entry/Object ID

2025.6.7

Description

6 East Laurel Avenue, at the northeast corner of Laurel and Green Bay Road. Alfred T. and Mildred Wells Carton estate. West-facing facade of the house (so looking east). Gardener Enoch Dunn is pushing a lawnmower across the grass in the yard. C. 1920s. Built in 1917-1918 - architect Chester H. Walcott, landscape architect James Roy West, with O.C. Simonds Landscape Design Enoch Dunn (1887-1944) was an English immigrant who worked for Alfred T. and Mildred Wells Carton as gardener and chauffeur at 6 East Laurel Avenue from at least 1919 to his death in 1944.

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Digital

Made/Created

Studio

Fred J. Mimke, photographer

Date made

1920 - 1929