Libertyville in Lake County, Illinois — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

Libertyville Heritage Area

Photographed by Sean P. Flynn, June 28, 2025

1. Libertyville Heritage Area Marker

Inscription. This gazebo, designed in the David Adler tradition is a community project serving as a welcome to the Libertyville heritage area.

Erected 1980 by Village of Libertyville.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Architecture • Parks & Recreational Areas.

Location. 42° 17.118′ N, 87° 57.222′ W. Marker is in Libertyville, Illinois, in Lake County. It is at the intersection of Milwaukee Avenue (Illinois Route 21) and Maple Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Milwaukee Avenue. The marker is affixed to the gazebo on the west end of Sunrise Rotary Park. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Libertyville IL 60048, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Greater Chicago.

It is also in the American Midwest

and on the Great Lakes.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture

and also the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least

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8 other markers are within 6 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Libertyville (a few steps from this marker); Cook Memorial Library (approx. 0.2 miles away); The Rondout Train Robbery (approx. 2.9 miles away); General Dragoljub Mihailovich (approx. 3.3 miles away); Serbian Orthodox Monastery of St. Sava (approx. 3.4 miles away); Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (approx. 4.1 miles away); The Dwyer Settlement in Lake County, Illinois (approx. 5 miles away); Amos Bennett (approx. 5½ miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Libertyville.

Regarding Libertyville Heritage Area. Architect David Adler was born in Milwaukee in 1882 and came to Chicago in 1911 to work under Howard Van Doren Shaw, an architect known for country homes. In 1918, Adler and his wife Catherine moved to Libertyville, in Chicago's far northern suburbs, near many of his commissions in Lake Forest and Lake Bluff. He and his wife moved into an 1864 farmhouse that they had remodeled; that estate is on the National Register of Historic Places, and today serves as the David Adler Music and Arts Center. Catherine Adler died in 1930 in an automobile

Libertyville Heritage Area marker on the gazebo; Libertyville marker to its right image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Sean P. Flynn, June 28, 2025

2. Libertyville Heritage Area marker on the gazebo; Libertyville marker to its right

accident in France. David Adler died in 1949 in Libertyville, and is buried next to his wife at Chicago's Graceland Cemetery.

Also see . . . Recalling the Grandeur of David Adler’s Lake Forest Estates. (Submitted on June 30, 2025, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.)

Rear view of Libertyville marker and the gazebo, with Milwaukee Avenue in the rear image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Sean P. Flynn, June 28, 2025

3. Rear view of Libertyville marker and the gazebo, with Milwaukee Avenue in the rear

David Adler estate in Libertyville image. Click for full size.

Raymond W. Trowbridge, photographer; courtesy of Chicago History Museum (ICHi-080876), circa 1935

4. David Adler estate in Libertyville

This undated photo shows the garage tower at the David Adler Estate in Libertyville. The photographer, Raymond Trowbridge, was a Chicago architect who turned to photography after suffering from poor health. He documented hundreds of Chicago-area buildings between 1923 and his death in 1936. This photo was likely taken between 1929 and 1935.

Credits. This page was last revised on June 30, 2025. It was originally submitted on June 30, 2025, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois. This page has been viewed 128 times since then and 19 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on June 30, 2025, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.