Villa Turicum: "Lake Forest Building Survey, 1980-1981"

              LAKE FOREST BUILDING SURVEY, 1980-81    BUILDING INFORMATION     1

NAME OF BUILDING  Villa Turicum

ADDRESS OF BUILDING  595-655 Circle Lane

ORIGINALLY BUILT FOR  Harold McCormick (Edith Rockefeller McCormick)

PRESENT IDENTITY OF BUILDING [blank]

DATE of work discussed on this form:  1912
     Source of that date: [blank]

ARCHITECT of that work:  Charles A. Platt
     Source of that identity [blank]

Exterior:  noteable features visible on the building and grounds, for example, gardens, landscaping, walls, gates, fountains, coach house: --if the work altered something already existing, specify what those alterations were

Italian Villa Style – 300 Acre estate.  High plateau overlooking Lake Michigan covered with native oak, maple, ash & hickory.  Two large ravines cut through the property.  House based on Villa D’Este in Tivoli, Italy – near Rome.  44 rooms – 15 bathrooms 21 garages (each with imported copper door) 29 bedrooms for visiting chauffers, 28 rooms for gardeners, magnificent gardens & $600,000 tea house.

Stucco with green shutters, tile roof – service wings concealed (green sheet) by heavy woods (Approach through pine forest.)

Interior:  noteable features inside the main buildings, for example, period rooms, special rooms, fireplaces, noteable interior decoration – if the work altered something already existing, specify what those alterations were

Marble fireplaces, marble-walled ballroom, marbled-walled & columned Pompeian room with pool & fountain – oil-painted walls & ceiling, walnut paneled dining room for 60.  13 master bedrooms, each with bath & fireplace.

Sources of visual documentation for work discussed on this form:  [blank]

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