The estate was built in 1926-28 for financier William McCormick Blair, who was one of the many wealthy and prominent Chicagoans to build an estate in Lake Bluff in the early twentieth century.

The house has a complex, sprawling shape unified by the consistent use of double-hung windows and wood roofing shingles.

The estate also includes a garage, a tennis house, two cottages, two sheds, a folly shaped like a Greek temple, a greenhouse, and a garden.

[2] The estate was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 31, 2008.

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