{"nrhp_refnum":"00000944","name":"Leonard, Clifford Milton, Farm","other_names":["Meadowood Dairy"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"550,561,565,570,575,579 Hathaway Circle","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lake Forest","county":"Lake County","state":"IL","lat":42.24974775800007,"lon":-87.87490497199997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2000-08-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A former gentleman's dairy farm complex (Meadowood Dairy) at Hathaway Circle and Inverlieth Road in Lake Forest, Lake County, Illinois, built 1923-1926 for Clifford Milton Leonard. It includes a round dairy barn, carriage barn, cottages and other farm buildings, all in a Norman farmhouse style.","why_significant":"The complex was designed by architect Ralph W. Varney with landscape plans by Jens Jensen, modeled on the farm buildings of Normandy that Leonard admired. The buildings keep their original exteriors and Norman character, including a rare round barn. The farm also supplied milk and eggs to the community around 1928-1930. The significance statement itself is not included in the available text.","narrative":"Built between 1923 and 1926 in Lake Forest, Illinois, this former dairy farm known as Meadowood was created for Clifford Milton Leonard, who assembled more than 150 acres and hired architect Ralph W. Varney and landscape architect Jens Jensen. Leonard had admired the farm buildings of Normandy in France, and Varney used that style for the dairy barn, carriage barn, milk house, chicken house and staff cottages. The centerpiece is a brick and stone round barn with an attached three-story silo, several copper-topped cupolas and a half-timbered hay dormer. The carriage barn has half-timber and stucco details and a glass and copper lantern cupola. The farm supplied milk and eggs to the community around 1928 to 1930. Later the barns were carefully converted to homes, in 1958 and 1967, while the exteriors were largely preserved. Seven contributing buildings and three contributing structures remain, along with three modern garages that do not contribute.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Ralph W. Varney (architect); Jens Jensen (landscape architect)","architectural_style":"French Renaissance Revival; Other/Round Barn","criteria":[],"status_note":"Buildings have been converted to private residences; current functions are listed as Domestic/Single Dwellings and Secondary Structures. Exteriors reported largely unchanged.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.558667-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/4/8933/28893304/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/00000944.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000944/cfbd9cd09b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/00000944/cfbd9cd09b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clifford_Milton_Leonard_Farm.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Teemu08</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clifford_Milton_Leonard_Farm.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893304","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Milton_Leonard_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q86753175"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/lake-county/leonard-clifford-milton-farm-00000944/"}