In 1913, Minneapolis debutante Florence Hopwood and her wealthy husband, Charles Gates, built a 38,000-square-foot "cottage" on Lake of the Isles; it was torn down in 1933. Historian and house ...

Is the Charles Gates Dawes House in Evanston haunted? “Hmm, that’s a trick question,” said Eden Juron Pearlman, executive director of the Evanston History Center, which shares the National ...

Guides from the Evanston Historical Society will lead Halloween flashlight tours of the historic Charles Gates House at 6:30, 7:15, 8 and 8:45 p.m. Thursday at 225 Greenwood St. Reservations are ...

The Evanston History Center will be able to hire an architect for the final phase of its Charles Gates Dawes House renovations with a recent $2,500 grant from Landmarks Illinois. The $2,500 grant ...

Vice President Charles Gates Dawes . If you take a stroll near Lake Michigan on Greenwood Street, you’ll wind up across the street from the Charles Gates Dawes House.