Louis F. Swift House

Historic house in Illinois, United States

United States historic place


Louis F. Swift House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


42°14′09″N 87°50′28″W / 42.23583°N 87.84111°W / 42.23583; -87.84111 (Louis F. Swift House)
Built	1916 (1916)
Architect	Howard Van Doren Shaw
Architectural style	Renaissance Revival
NRHP reference No.	05001256^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 18, 2005

The Louis F. Swift House is a historic house at 255 E. Foster Place in Lake Forest, Illinois. The house was built in 1916 for Louis F. Swift, the president of meat packing firm Swift & Company; it was originally an addition to a home built for Swift in 1898, which was demolished in 1940. As a wealthy man who headed a major company, Swift was typical of the early twentieth century residents of Lake Forest, who were some of the richest and most prominent residents of the Chicago area. Architect Howard Van Doren Shaw, who designed several other homes for Lake Forest residents, designed the Swift House in the Renaissance Revival style. The house features a brick exterior, an asymmetrical front divided into three sections, a portico above the entrance, and bracketed eaves.^[2]

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 18, 2005.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ Benjamin, Susan S.; Yant, Gwen Sommers (May 2, 2005). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Swift, Louis F., House ("Westleigh")" (PDF). Illinois Historic Preservation Division. Retrieved March 11, 2020.^{[dead link]}