Lake Forest College-Durand Institute

Marking the North End of the Lake Forest College Campus, The Durand Institute completed in 1892, was designed by Henry Ives Cobb who also designed several buildings for Lake Forest College in the later 1880's and early 1890's, only two of which survive on campus. The other is the 1891 Gymnasium, now Hotchkiss Hall, on Middle Campus. The timing of Cobb's Lake Forest work was overlapping with his designing of this country’s first great Beaux-Arts Collegiate-Gothic campus plan for the University of Chicago (1891-93).

It's a good example of Richardsonian Romanesque architectural style in red sandstone. It houses the Sonnenschein and Albright Galleries.