This property once served as the gardener’s cottage for Westmoreland, the country place of the Dick family. In 1902, architect James Gamble Rogers designed the forty-acre estate for Albert Blake and Mary Mathews Dick and their five children. The name derived from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, the home of A. B. Dick’s grandparents. A. B. Dick was an entrepreneur, founder of A. B. Dick Company and inventor of the mimeograph, a precursor to the copy machine.

The L-shaped, 20-room estate was 2 and a half stories, built of red brick with limestone details. But Westmoreland was more than a manor house: it had greenhouses and a chicken coop, formal gardens and a pergola, barns and wheat fields, and even a water tower.

In 1939, Mary Mathews Dick gave 24 acres of the farm as a site for the new Lake Forest Hospital. She also left the hospital an additional 60 acres in her will in 1944, which included the manor house, garage, barn and several cottages of the original estate. Hospital architect Stanley Anderson took some inspiration from James Gamble Rogers’ Westmoreland design. The main house was razed in 1948. This property was subdivided and served as a private residence by 1950. Along with the gates at 870 West Deerpath, this and a few other outbuildings are all that remain of the estate today.