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Homes for the Holidays LAKE BLUFF HISTORY MUSEUM’S 9TH ANNUAL CHRISTMAS HOME TOUR IS A FESTIVE WAY TO KICK OFF THE SEASON. EDITED BY SHERRY THOMAS THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
Like the classic holiday ballet, The Nutcracker, which transports viewers through a sequence of fantasy worlds, the Lake Bluff History Museum’s Christmas Home Tour takes visitors all over the architectural map. The tour includes several historically significant homes, including a stone gatehouse built in 1925 on the grounds of one of the village’s most notable estates; a circa 1905 Queen Anne home that was commissioned by a major player in the vaudeville circuit who went on to found one of Hollywood’s Big Five movie studios; and a beautifully renovated circa 1955 farmhouse that has a totally unexpected interior, with rooms that radiate from a circular atrium, floor-to-ceiling paintings covering black lacquered walls, and interior décor that includes a mixture of velvets, antiques and custom-scene wallpaper. A recently built home that was on the tour a few years ago returns in 2019 to Continued on PG 10
IF THE SHOE FITS
WITH A SECOND GENERATION ON BOARD, FOREST BOOTERY CELEBRATES A SENSATIONAL 70 YEARS IN BUSINESS. BY ANN MARIE SCHEIDLER THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
When sisters Cristina and Cara Garrison invited their father to breakfast at Highland Park’s Country Kitchen more than 20 years ago to discuss taking over running his Forest Bootery store, they had no idea they’d be at the helm when the Lake Forest icon celebrated its 70th anniversary. “I can tell you straight that we didn’t see this coming,” says Cara with a laugh. “In fact, if it weren’t for my husband—who was my boyfriend at the time—pushing Cristina and I to give the business a go and continue the legacy, who knows what might have happened.” Cristina and Cara acquired Forest Bootery from their father in 1996, a long-standing business he purchased two decades earlier (that had opened in 1949). “My dad had part ownership in a shoe store in Yorktown (in the Western Suburbs),” Cara says. “He realized he wanted to have his own business and began to travel around to see what might be available in different suburbs. When he arrived in Lake Forest, he knew the business had to be here.” Outbidding an offer on the table, Paul Garrison purchased one of the two local shoe stores in Lake Forest at the time and renamed it the Forest Bootery. “I remember my mom sitting at the kitchen table tracing rolls of masking tape to create the logo that we still use for the store today,” Cara says. While Cristina and Cara both worked at the Forest Booter y growing up, they didn’t set out to follow in their father’s footsteps.
Cristina Garrison and her sister Cara Garrison took the helm of Forest Bootery from their father more
Continued on PG 10 than 20 years ago. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBIN SUBAR
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