{"nrhp_refnum":"95000196","name":"Bennett, Edward H., House and Studio","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"89 E. Deerpath","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lake Forest","county":"Lake County","state":"IL","lat":42.25033323000008,"lon":-87.84484952699995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-03-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A French Renaissance style house named \"Bagatelle\", with a coach house, a 1936 Art Moderne studio and a surrounding concrete wall, at 89 East Deerpath in Lake Forest, Lake County, Illinois. Edward H. Bennett designed it for himself in 1915-1916.","why_significant":"The property is tied to Edward H. Bennett, the planner who co-authored the Plan of Chicago with Daniel Burnham and later led major Chicago projects such as the Michigan Avenue Bridge, Wacker Drive and Buckingham Fountain. The house and grounds show his Beaux-Arts training in their formal, axial design. The form describes the buildings and setting as retaining excellent integrity.","narrative":"Bagatelle is a two-story French Renaissance style house at the corner of Deerpath and Green Bay Road in Lake Forest, Illinois. City planner and architect Edward H. Bennett designed it for himself and built it in 1915-1916 on land given to him and his wife Catherine by her father, David B. Jones. Gray stucco, red brick quoins and string courses, and a slate roof define the house. It is built of concrete with hollow tile inside the walls because Bennett feared fire. The 2.03-acre property also has a matching coach house, a concrete wall along the street sides, formal gardens on axis with the house, and an Art Moderne studio Bennett designed in 1936. Bennett studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and the formal composition reflects that training. He co-authored the Plan of Chicago with Daniel Burnham and later worked on the Michigan Avenue Bridge, Wacker Drive and Buckingham Fountain. The site is valued for that association and for its well-preserved design.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Edward H. Bennett (designed the house, coach house and studio)","architectural_style":"French Renaissance; Moderne (Art Moderne studio)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a single-family residence with a secondary structure; the form says changes were made by Bennett or are sympathetic to his designs, and integrity is excellent.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:37.674456-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/12/8933/28893312/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_IL/95000196.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000196/1e66acb7c6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000196/1e66acb7c6-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Teemu08 (talk)","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edward_H_Bennett_House.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Teemu08 (talk)</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:Edward_H_Bennett_House.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28893312","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_H._Bennett_House_and_Studio","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16984115"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/illinois/lake-county/bennett-edward-h-house-and-studio-95000196/"}