Morse Ely House (Lake Bluff, Illinois)

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The third estate built in the Ferry Field and Ferry Woods Subdivision belonged to Mrs.
Carolyn Morse Ely. It consisted of 16.669 acres. The buildings, which included a main
house, two gate houses and an orangerie, were all designed by David Adler, high on the
list of Chicago’s leading country house architects. Adler’s obituary in the Monthly
Bulletin of the Illinois Society of Architects, October, 1949, said “David Adler, who died
last week, was, in the true sense of the word, one of the most influential men of his
generation in Chicago. He was an architect of great distinction whose taste in the
decorative arts was unequaled in his time….Somebody once said that Adler’s houses had
the quality of Mozart’s music, and, indeed, they have a Mozartean spontaneity, grace and
elegance in line and decoration.”