Harley Clarke Mansion
The Harley Clarke Mansion consists of a French Eclectic-style house and coach house located at 2603 Sheridan Road in Evanston, Illinois, Evanston, Illinois, adjacent to the historic Grosse Point Light, Grosse Pointe Light and Lighthouse Beach on Lake Michigan. Cited as a contributing structure for the Northeast Evanston Historic District that Evanston established with the National Park Service in 1999, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2016, Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois, Landmarks Illinois added the Harley Clarke Mansion to its list of most endangered historic places in Illinois. Architecture The three-story, 16-room, limestone mansion was originally situated on nearly five acres of lakefront property landscaped by Jens Jensen (landscape architect), Jens Jensen, a Prairie School landscape architect, in collaboration with Alfred Caldwell. Amongst the elements of the landscape was an informal wooded landscape on the bluff down to the home ...
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