{"nrhp_refnum":"01000178","name":"Reed, Mrs. Kersey Coates, House","other_names":["Helen Shedd Reed House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1315 N. Lake Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lake Forest","county":"Lake County","state":"IL","lat":42.263070534000065,"lon":-87.82719628199999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-03-02","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Georgian Revival mansion at 1315 North Lake Road, Lake Forest, Illinois, built in 1932 on a bluff above Lake Michigan. It was designed by David Adler with his sister Frances Elkins as interior decorator.","why_significant":"The house is presented as a major work by architect David Adler and an example of Georgian and Colonial Revival estate design in Lake Forest's second wave of estate building. It is among the largest estates in the community and retains its floorplan, public spaces, landscape and historic features without alteration. The truncated text does not include the formal significance statement or criteria.","narrative":"Set on a bluff above Lake Michigan on North Lake Road in Lake Forest, this Georgian Revival mansion was completed in 1932 for Mrs. Kersey Coates Reed. Architect David Adler designed it, and his sister Frances Elkins planned the interiors. It replaced an 1884 house called Elsinore, which the Reeds had bought in 1915 and later demolished. The main section is built of Pennsylvania stone containing mica, in a five-part plan with a 2-1/2-story central block, two-story side dependencies and a long service wing. The house has 72 rooms and more than 32,000 square feet of space. Its seven-acre grounds include a stone wall, wrought iron gates bearing the monogram HSR, and a formal entrance court with a circular pool. The interior shows Adler's use of cross axes and classical detailing alongside Elkins's decorative work. It is a notable example of Lake Forest's second wave of estate building and the Colonial Revival, and it remains in use as a single dwelling.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"David Adler (architect); Frances Elkins (interior decorator)","architectural_style":"19th and 20th Century Revivals/Colonial Revival (Georgian Revival)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as meticulously maintained by its current owners since 1976, with no alterations to the landscape, public spaces, floorplan or historic features; still used as a single dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.579455-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/90/8932/28893290/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/01000178.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000178/479f4dc081-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01000178/479f4dc081-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mrs._Kersey_Coates_Reed_House.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:Mrs._Kersey_Coates_Reed_House.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"78001161","name":"Lake Forest Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/illinois/lake-forest-historic-district-78001161/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893290","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Shedd_Reed_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q86755175"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/lake-county/reed-mrs-kersey-coates-house-01000178/"}