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The Fairies of Mrs. Scott Durand

By:International News Service
Date: Wed,24 Dec 2014
Submitter:Adept Yogi
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FAIRIES RUN FARM WHILE WOMAN OWNER STAYS IN CHICAGO

Pittsburgh Press - April 6, 1922

By International News Service

Chicago, April 6 - The farm hands do the work on Crab Tree Farm, the country estate of Mrs. Scott Durand, but it is the fairies or "land spirits’" who really run the place and who "keep the water pure and clean and make things grow."

Moreover, Mrs. Durand consults the fairies when she is in trouble, and "they make things right".

Mrs. Durand told of the fairies in an address before the Chicago Psychical Research Society. Incidentally, she revealed that, until about a year ago, Joan of Arc used to visit her daily and red the morning newspaper before it was brought to the Durand breakfast table. She did not reveal why Joan comes no longer.

"These land spirits are the dearest things I have ever seen,’’ Mrs, Durand said. "To show how real and important they are to me, I had gourd vines planted because they have thick stems and make a place for the spirits to sit."

"These little nature spirits are all good, and are dressed very beautifully. I command them just as I do the help on my farm, and they do my bidding. Yesterday they were flitting everywhere. I not only see them but I can feel them."

Just now Mrs. Durand is staying at a Chicago hotel, leaving the fairies to care for her farm, which is one of the noted country estates in this section.

HISTORY OF CRAB TREE FARM

At the turn of the twentieth century, the property we know today as Crab Tree Farm was part of a 370-acre dairy farm, owned by the eminent Illinois federal district judge and railroad president Henry W. Blodgett, who created the system that became the Chicago & Northwestern Railway in 1863.

In 1905 Scott Sloan Durand (1869–1949), founder of S. S. Durand and Co., a Chicago sugar brokerage, purchased 250 acres of Blodgett’s land on Lake Michigan just north of the village of Lake Bluff, Illinois, and presented them to his wife, Grace Durand (1867–1948). Informed by agricultural training, she had founded a burgeoning commercial business, Crab Tree Dairy, on twenty acres in the residential village

Grace Durand at Crab
Tree Farm

of Lake Forest. There, Durand kept her prize herd of Guernsey cows, but escaped animals and the aroma of farm life were a constant source of irritation to neighbors, and the Durands determined that they must relocate to the former Blodgett property.

Lake Forest’s Grace Durand built her farm into an operation that one newspaper called the “most famous dairy farm in the United States.”

In 1910, less than five years after they had moved, a fire destroyed the original farm buildings, and that event prompted Grace Durand to commission noted Chicago architect Solon Spencer Beman (1853–1914), who is perhaps best known for his design of Pullman Village (1880–84) on Chicago’s far south side, to develop plans for a modern facility for her operation. The result was the assembly of buildings that survives today as Crab Tree Farm.

Beman, who trained in New York and had come to the Chicago area with the promise of work after the city’s devastating 1871 fire, created a massive central barn surmounted by a clock tower. It is flanked by four additional buildings and a pair of silos. Arranged around a central court and reflecting pool, the structures provide approximately 20,000 square feet of interior space.

The buildings were constructed to be fireproof, with steel framing and walls of terracotta blocks, finished with concrete and white stucco. The roofs were cast from concrete to resemble terracotta tiles. The buildings were provided with electric lights, water, refrigeration, and ventilation. Their somewhat eclectic style has been referred to as “California Mission,” “South African,” and “Scandinavian.”

In 1912–13 the noted landscape architect Jens Jensen developed plans for fruit, flower, and vegetable gardens and orchards. Only parts of his plan were executed.

In 1926 William McCormick Blair (1884–1982) and his wife, Helen Bowen Blair (1890–1972), purchased from the Durands eleven acres of farmland overlooking Lake Michigan and commissioned architect David Adler (1882–1949) to design a summer home. In 1948, after Grace Durand died, the dairy ceased operations. Over the next decade, the Blairs purchased the rest of the farm.
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