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Jan 3, 2013 · McCormick was the widow of Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor and founder of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. She died in 1923 and the house was inherited by her daughter Anita McCormick Blaine, widow of Emmons Blaine. Click HERE for the wikipedia page on the McCormick family. Click HERE to see 'House-in-the-Woods' on bing. Photos from ...
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DESCRIPTION. Exterior view of the residence of Harold McCormick and Edith Rockefeller McCormick. The home and yard are surrounded by stone and wrought-iron fencing with an elaborate gate opening to the walkway. The residence was built by Solon Spencer Beman and was located at 1000 Lake Shore Drive.
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 ...
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EDITH ROCKEFELLER McCORMICK HOUSE. Although it was commonly referred to as the Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick residence, this house located at 1000 N. Lake Shore Drive was built in 1883 for Nathaniel Jones, a prosperous member of the Board of Trade. He was described as “one of the wealthiest and most successful businessmen in Chicago.”.
Nov 19, 2015 · Edith Rockefeller McCormick Residence. Although it is often referred to as the Edith Rockefeller McCormick Residence, the Romanesque Revival mansion at 1000 N. Lake Shore Dr. was...
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 ...
56 photographic prints : &w ; 8 x 10 in. approximately 1890-1899. Interior and exteriors views of the Edith Rockefeller McCormick residence at 1000 N. Lake Shore Drive (Chicago, Ill.). Related materials at Chicago History Museum, Research Center, include McCormick mansion photograph collection (1980.0336) View this description in WorldCat .
