Note:

Villa Turicum is the Charles A Platt designed summer home originally built for Harold McCormick and Edith Rockefeller McCormick at the turn of the 20th Century. The impressive gardens featured a 120 foot reflecting pond and a 90 foot series of terraced fountains and sculpture leading down a steep bluff to Lake Michigan. By the 1960s, the home had been demolished and the garden had been left in a state of disrepair. In the 1980s the sculptural elements of the garden were meticulously restored.

Provenance:

Removed from Villa Turicum, (the Lake Forest estate of Harold and Edith Rockefeller McCormick)

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