777 North Green Bay Road

This farmhouse has been the subject of various accounts about its origins. As the late Rollie Griffis, great grandson of William Atteridge, explained, at one time this was the house of Sarah Brewster Hodges, who was the daughter of Walter and Katherine Lancaster Brewster, who built the estate across Green Bay, Covin Tree, in 1907, with Howard Van Doren Shaw as the architect. Other stories heard are that the house was moved to this location and that at one time it was the house for a farm owned by a member of the McCormick family. An 1861 Lake County map in the Lake Forest College Library Special Collections shows that this land belonged to Thomas Atteridge. A map in an 1885 Lake County plat book just shows this as still part of the Thomas Atteridge farm. By the 1907 plat book for the county, prior to the Shaw Subdivision for the Young Men’s Club that year, Sunset Place was already platted, with this house’s location lot 65. The Brewster’s already owned the land across Green Bay to the west.