Fairlawn II
965 East Deerpath Road, Lake Forest, Lake County, Illinois
Built in 1923, for Mrs Grace (Farwell) McGann (1866-1949), Founding President of the Chicago Arts Club, and her husband, Robert Greaves McGann (b.1867). In 1918, Grace inherited Fairlawn I from her sister, Rose. It burned down just two years later and three years after that Grace employed the architects Delano & Aldrich to replace it with the red brick Neo-Georgian mansion seen today, very possibly inspired by the 18th Century Belair Mansion in Maryland which the same architects extended in 1914....
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When the new house was finished it was complete with an art studio for Grace's painting. The lakeshore estate (described in the write-up on its predecessor, Fairlawn I) featured the first golf course laid out in the Chicago region - by the famous Charles Blair Macdonald - but has since been reduced to just 3-acres. Fairlawn II contains 12,700-square feet of living space and in 2016 it was on the market for $7.5 million. It remains a private residence.
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Contributed by Mark Meredith on 18/10/2019 and last updated on 06/10/2022.
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