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| | Villa Turicum McCormick Mansion Ruins, Lake Forest, Illinois |
 | | Rockefeller McCormick, at Lake Forest, Illinois, is regarded as the finest example in America of the Italian treatment in landscape design. |
| | The entire plateau, which is nearly level, and the steep bank toward the lake, are covered with a fine stand of native oak, maple, ash and hickory. |
| | It is on this steep bank, toward the lake, that there was completed, in 1912, a series of terraces, reached by winding ramps and steps The terraces are marked by some beautiful pieces of sculpture, which as fountain sources have been set into niches in the easterly retaining walls of the various overlook levels. |
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