Related Records

1. 701 East Prospect Avenue - An Architectural and Historic Survey of the Camp Meeting Area of Lake Bluff that was completed in 1998. Additional information about the property is available at the Lake Bluff History Museum. 701 East Prospect Avenue Also included are Multiple Listing Sheets (MLS).

   701 East Prospect Avenue

   Record Type: Photo

   
2. 707 East Prospect Avenue - An Architectural and Historic Survey of the Camp Meeting Area of Lake Bluff that was completed in 1998. Additional information about the property is available at the Lake Bluff History Museum. 707 East Prospect Avenue This house and the house at 701 East Prospect Avenue were originally built for Gustavus Swift about 1885. 701 was for his son, and 707 for himself. The houses were subsequently altered in the period just before the first World War. (Source: a Guide to Chicago's Historic Suburbs, by Ira J. Bach) Also included are Multiple Listing Sheets (MLS).

   707 East Prospect Avenue

   Record Type: Photo

   
3. 708 Park Place - An Architectural and Historic Survey of the Camp Meeting Area of Lake Bluff that was completed in 1998. Additional information about the property is available at the Lake Bluff History Museum. 708 Park Place Also included are Multiple Listing Sheets (MLS)

   708 Park Place

   Record Type: Photo

   
4. Gustavus Swift and family - Extensive genealogy for Gustavus Swift and family. The Swift's were meat packers in Chicago. Gustavus and his son Louis each had a cottage in Lake Bluff. According to the Assessor's records, the Swifts at one time owned lots 5-9 in Block 21, being 701 and 707 Prospect Avenue and land fronting Park Place next to 708 Park Place and lived here as summer residents in late 1890s and early 1900s.

   Swift

   Record Type: Archive

   
5. The Yankee of the Yards: The Biography of Gustavus Franklin Swift - Swift, Louis F. and Arthur Van Vlissingen, Jr.

   1927

   Record Type: Library