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Lake Forest Preservation Foundation announces 2025 preservation, rehabilitation and infill award winners
Summary
The Lake Forest Preservation Foundation presented its 2025 preservation awards at the June 2 City Council meeting; president Henry Kleeman detailed winners across preservation, rehabilitation and infill categories including specific historic homes and recent infill projects.
Representatives of the Lake Forest Preservation Foundation presented the foundation’s 2025 preservation award winners to the City Council on June 2, highlighting properties recognized in preservation, rehabilitation and infill categories across the city.
Henry Kleeman, president of the Preservation Foundation, reviewed winners in multiple categories. Preservation winners included Westover (600 West Westminster Road), a late-1890s house by Charles Sumner Frost noted for stewardship by successive owners and architects; 85 Sunset Place in West Park, a 1928 Colonial/Federal-style house; and 380 Chilton Drive (1930), a limewashed-brick house listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Rehabilitation winners included the 1911 Howard Van Doren Shaw house at 980 North Green Bay Road (stable and garage complex restored) and 570 Estate Lane (known as Horse Barn 2) in the Lasker Estate, an adaptive reuse of a historic outbuilding. An additional rehabilitation winner cited was 620 Lake Road (built 1925) for sensitive updates.
Infill winners were 1274 Sheridan Road, described as an infill house that matches materials and scale to its East Side historic district neighbors, and 1000 Grandview Lane, a recently completed (2024) modern infill in a post‑war Southlake Forest neighborhood that respects its setting while being of its own era. Kleeman framed preservation as both looking back and extending tradition forward through careful infill design.
The council thanked the foundation and its executive director, Jennifer McGregor, for the presentations. The foundation said the awards honor property owners and stewards who maintain Lake Forest’s architectural heritage.
