Henry Ives Cobb, 1859-1931.
Gienhame, manse of First Presbyterian Church and the James G.K. McClure family, 487 East Walnut Road, built 1885.
Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, built 1890-91.
Gymnasium, Lake Forest College, built 1891 (now known as Hotchkiss Hall).
Lost Rock, built 1894, pictured c. 1916.
Pembroke Lodge, 500 Green Bay Road, Lake Forest.
Architect Henry Ives Cobb was born in Massachusetts in 1859 and attended MIT and Harvard University. Cobb came to Chicago in 1881, partnering with Charles Sumner Frost till 1888.
By 1892, Cobb had the largest architectural firm in the city. He designed the following buildings: the Chicago Post Office, the Federal Building, the Fisheries Building at the World’s Columbian Exposition, the Newberry Library, Chicago Historical Society, the quadrangle plan for the University of Chicago, and the Potter Palmer mansion on Lake Shore Drive (now demolished).
Cobb designed several buildings for Lake Forest College in the 1880s and 1890s, only two of which survive: Durand Institute (1891-1892,) and the 1891 Gymnasium, now known as Hotchkiss Hall.
Cobb’s own estate on 175 acres west of Green Bay Road was finished in 1890. Frederick Law Olmstead did the landscape plan. The large Shingle-style house was sold in 1895 to the Lake Forest Golf Club which turned the property into the Onwentsia Club's clubhouse. (This facility was razed in 1927 to make way for the current H. T. Lindeberg clubhouse.)
Other Lake Forest commissions include:
1885: “Gienhame,” McClure Manse, Rev. James G. K. McClure, 487 East Walnut Road, Lake Forest
1894: “Lost Rock,” Mr. and Mrs. William Henry Smith, 100 Pembroke Drive, Lake Forest
1895: “Pembroke Lodge,” Mr. and Mrs. David B. Jones, 500 Green Bay Road, Lake Forest