Your Lake Forest Power Washing Pros
Lake Forest was a planned community from the day it was founded in 1857 — laid out as a Presbyterian college town, with Lake Forest College established the same year. The city was formally incorporated in 1861. What separates Lake Forest from every other North Shore suburb isn't age, though — it's the architectural density. Some of the most important American residential architects of the early 20th century designed estates here: Howard Van Doren Shaw, David Adler (one of Shaw's top students), Henry Ives Cobb, and a Frank Lloyd Wright project as well. Those houses are still standing, still occupied, and still defining the visual bar that every homeowner and every service provider here has to meet.
Market Square is the public face of that heritage. Designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw and completed in 1916, it's the first planned shopping center in the United States designed around the automobile — a 260-foot-deep U-shaped commercial plan directly across from the Metra station, built as part of the Lake Forest Improvement Plan under real estate developer Arthur Aldis. The buildings are unified red brick and limestone, mid-1910s detail work, and the mortar is a hundred years old. Soft-wash, not high-pressure, every time.
The residential stock reflects the same architectural standards. Lake Michigan bluff homes and ravine-side estates hold Shaw manors, Adler Colonial Revivals, Tudor revival country houses with cedar-shake roofs, and English-style stone manors with slate. Sheridan Road crosses ravines on bridges and winds past homes that were built as country retreats a century ago. Deerpath Road, Westleigh Road, and the quiet eastern streets hold slate roofs, copper gutters, cedar trim, flagstone walks, and limestone window surrounds — surfaces that do not forgive a contractor who doesn't know what he's cleaning. The Onwentsia Club, the city's social and sporting anchor, drew 40,000 spectators to Lake Forest in August 1933 when it hosted the World Series of Polo as a capstone to the Century of Progress Exposition.
The Volo shop is about forty-five minutes northwest of Lake Forest — Route 60 east to Route 41 north, Deerpath Road east. Family-owned, fully insured, 124 Google reviews. I soft-wash historic brick and stone without damaging mortar, clean cedar shake and wood siding without stripping the finish, restore century-old flagstone and limestone without pulling joint material, and clear gutters on slate and copper roofs without bending anything. No subcontractors, no guesswork. Every quote is free.
