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Nov 19, 2015 · Although it is often referred to as the Edith Rockefeller McCormick Residence, the Romanesque Revival mansion at 1000 N. Lake Shore Dr. was originally built for prominent and wealthy Board of ...
Dec 11, 2011 · 11 Sunday Dec 2011. I just stumbled upon the most wonderful web site dedicated to the legendary Villa Turicum, the Lake Forest estate built for Harold McCormick and his wife, Edith Rockefeller McCormick. The 44-room Italianate villa was constructed between 1908 and 1918. Spurning an altogether different design by Frank Lloyd Wright, the ...
Lake Forest, Illinois. By F. A. CUSHING SMITH, A.S.L.A. Editor, The American Landscape Architect. June 1930. Four beautiful elms grace the long greensward of the mall that leads to the residence at "Villa Turicum." "VILLA TURICUM," the country estate of Mrs. Rockefeller McCormick, at Lake Forest, Illinois, is regarded as the finest example in ...
The estate was purchased in 1956 by Robert Kendler of Community Builders. The house, found to be structurally unsound, was torn down. The property was subdivided into 161 lots and in 1972 was being marketed with a familiar name, Villa Turicum. . The Lake Forest Estate of Harold Fowler McCormick and Edith Rockefeller McCormick, built on the ...
Villa Turicum, however, was always fully staffed. In 1932, bankrupted by the stock market crash, Edith R. McCormick died $2 million in debt. The house was long abandoned and demolished in 1965, and the property was extensively sub-divided. But the water chain leading to the lake, has, in the past three years, been marvelously restored by its ...
Edith Rockefeller McCormick (August 31, 1872 – August 25, 1932) was an American socialite, daughter of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller . She and her husband Harold Fowler McCormick were prominent in Chicago society, supporting many causes, including the city's first opera company. After being treated for depression by Jung, she ...
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According to The Submerged and Shore Lands Legislative Investigating Committee of 1911, "The residence of Harold McCormick occupies the territory bounded on the east by the Lake Shore Drive, 20 feet west of the Lake Shore drive on Oak st. and 100 feet west from the Lake Shore drive on Bellevue place." The handwritten text at the bottom right of ...
