Name/Title
A.B. Dick's Residence Lake Forest, ILLEntry/Object ID
2002.289.3Description
black and white sepia toned postcard, postmarked October 22, to Elmo from Oscar
Westmoreland built by A.B. Dick in 1902 by architect James G. Rogers at 537-549 King Muir Road as a forty-acre summer estate near Deerpath and Waukegan Road. The name "Westmoreland" was taken from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania where Mr. Dick had spent some time. The main house designed by Rogers was constructed of brick and stone and built in the French Renaissance style, had twenty rooms, sleeping porches (added around 1910) The house was razed in 1948. In 1939, Albert Dick's widow Mary gave 24 acres of the farm as a site for the new hospital to replace Alice Home Hospital on the Lake Forest College campus. She also left an additional 60 acres in her will in 1944, which included the manor house, garage, barn and several cottages of the original estate. Stanley Anderson, who built Lake Forest Hospital copied the manor house for the original hospital building.
owners: Albert Blake Dick Sr. and Mary Mathews DickLexicon
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Category 06: Tools & Equipment for Communication
