Anyone who’s ever loved a historic home knows the plot: love at first sight, followed by pain, investment, change, and finally, hopefully, happily ever after. That’s the story behind the renovation of The Ragdale House, an artists’ colony in Lake Forest that was designed as the summer home of Arts and Crafts architect Howard Van […]
The author of “The Family Man” and “Then She Found Me” will be at Ragdale for a reading and discussion on May 12 at 10 a.m. The discussion with the 2011 Hannah Judy Gretz Fellow is open to the public, but reservations are necessary. Please call Melissa at 847-234-1063 x201 or email m.ernst@ragdale.org In anticipation […]
When Susan Tillett, executive director of Ragdale, the artists’ colony in Lake Forest, was challenged at a leadership institute to consider her legacy, she immediately envisioned a book. Three years later, on her tenth anniversary at the helm of the fourth largest artists’ colony in the United States, “The Ragdale House Speaks” is a reality. […]
