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A rare inside look at 'Port o'Call' the David Adler designed, early American style estate along Lake Michigan in Lake Bluff, IL led by Thomas Gleason, its collections manager. This home has architectural salvage from an 18th century Virginia residence and rooms inspired by collections of the Met Museum of New York City. Along with several outbuildings for professional staff, Adler also designed one of the oldest, private, indoor tennis courts in America here. The estate was built in 1926 for the family who invented the McCormick Agriculture Reaper, founded major banks and the eponymous investment banking firm, William Blair and Company. David Adler studied architecture at Princeton, the Polytechnikum in Munich and at the famed Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. While bicycling around Europe, he collected books and over 500 postcards on the exquisite architecture of its past for his personal library. A historicist, he was expertly skilled in creating rooms of perfect proportion and scale with the discriminating use of historical details.
