Friday Sep 16, 2011
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM CDT
Following the presentation at the First Presbyterian Church, a reception/book signing will follow at a private home.
This event is free of charge and part of the Foundation's ongoing mission to educate, advocate and fund for Historic Preservation.
(847) 234-1230
Lecture by architectural historian Edward W. Wolner: Henry Ives Cobb's Chicago; Architecture, Institutions and the Making of a Metopolis
Introduction by Arthur H. Miller
Henry Ives Cobb was one of Chicago's most influential architects in the 1880s and early 1890s. He was responsible for the Newberry Library, the Chicago Historical Society, the Chicago Athletic Association, the Chicago Federal Building, and the first buildings and master plan for the University of Chicago. Noted for their excellance in Lake Forest are the First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest (1887,designed by his firm), the Durand Institute (1892) on the Lake Forest College campus facing the First Presbyterian Church and the Chapel (1888) on Mayflower Road. Five houses he designed that are still standing are on Walnut, Sheridan, Pembroke and Green Bay. Cobb summered in Lake Forest briefly in the early 1890's before moving to New York. After leaving Lake Forest his home became the Onwentsia Clubhouse, (demol. 1928).
Now a full study of the work of Henry Ives Cobb's has been written by architectural historian Edward W. Wolner, funded by the Richard Driehaus Foundation and published by the University of Chicago Press. Edward W. Wolner teaches architectural history and the Western humanities in the Department of Architecture and the Honors College at Ball State University.