Vast Lake Forest Country Estate Of Former Quaker CEO, Ambassador And Antiwar Activist Drops Price By $1M

LAKE FOREST, IL — A vast historic estate on more than 27 acres of conserved land, Topsfield Farm, has seen its listing price drop by a million dollars this year. Sellers are now asking for $8 million for the country estate that is believed to have originated as a stage coach shop.

Architect Stanley Anderson incorporated an existing 1840's structure into a Georgian design in 1930. In 1950, Robert D. Stuart Jr., the third-generation CEO of Quaker Oats, co-founder of the anti-WW2 America First Committee and Ambassador to Norway under President Ronald Reagan, bought the estate, where he lived until his death in 2014.

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The property includes a four-stall horse barn, a three-car garage, two fireplaces, horse-riding area, a two-bedroom cottage, a heated enclosed porch, a sauna, indoor and outdoor pools, a tennis court and views to the 12th hole of a nearby golf course on land that was cut from the estate in the 1990's.

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• Address: 1601 Conway Rd, Lake Forest, Illinois
• Price: $8,000,000
• Square Feet:
• Bedrooms: 6
• Bathrooms: 7 Full and 1 Half Baths
• Built: 1930
• Features: A once in a lifetime opportunity to live on 27.55 pastoral acres, of mostly conserved land. The historic, Topsfield Farm, believed to have been a former stage coach stop, has only had 4 owners. Stanley Anderson first renovated the home in the 1930's giving it the casual elegance that society dictated at the time. The current owner has embellished it over the past 50+ years, again with the help of Stanley Anderson and Co, to include a 4 stall horse barn, pool, both indoor and outdoor, as well as a tennis court and caretakers 2 bedroom cottage. all this and sweeping views of the 12th tee in the distance. The opportunity awaits you.

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