550 E. Deerpath

This is the site of the 1859 Slyvester Lind home which burned in 1905, though the 1859 stable survives north of the driveway on the First Presbyterian property, built by Lind himself who had been an 1830's Chicago carpenter at the dawn there of balloon framing for houses. The 1906 house was by Hugh M. G. Garden for instigator and chair of the Burnham and Bennett Plan of Chicago of 1909. Sylvester Lind (1808-1892) was the founder of Lind University in 1857, now known as Lake Forest College, and a four-term mayor of Lake Forest.