Mayflower Road Condominiums-Site of Ferry Hall

The Mayflower Road Condominiums are currently located on the site of Ferry Hall, which opened its doors in September 1869 as a school intended to “complete the education of the young lady students.” In 1888 Cobb & Frost designed a major expansion of the Ferry Hall campus. The only remnant of that 1869/1888 campus is the chapel, adaptively-reused as a residence in the Mayflower Condominiums complex. Ferry Hall was expanding to offer a women's college program in the late 1880's, Ferry College, which only lasted a few years. In late 1970s, Ferry Hall merged with Lake Forest Academy and the land was subdivided. The building, described in the first school catalog as “the spacious and elegant edifice” was converted to condominiums.