Robert Morrison, who did stints as CEO atop two major Chicago foods companies, Kraft and Quaker, has put his Lake Forest home of 25 years on the market.
Morrison and his wife, Susan Morrison, are asking $4.65 million for the home, a 10,800-square-foot, seven-bedroom Colonial on Westminster Road.
The Morrisons’ listing brings to 13 the number of homes for sale at $4 million and up in Lake Forest, where nothing has sold at that level since August 2018.
The Morrisons could not be reached for comment. Their listing agent, Mona Hellinga of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Chicago, declined to comment for this article beyond what’s in the listing she posted.
The couple bought the house and its 2.6-acre site for $2.25 million in 1995, according to the Lake County Recorder of Deeds.
At the time, Robert Morrison was midway through his three years as chairman and CEO of Kraft Foods, then based in suburban Northfield. (It's now Kraft Heinz, based in the city.) In 1997, he became chairman, president and CEO of Quaker Oats, based in the city, and remained with the company through its 2001 merger with Pepsico. He retired as Pepsico’s vice chairman in 2003, and for part of 2005 was interim CEO of 3M, in Minnesota.
Over the years, the mansion, known as Westover, has been touched by several estimable architects, according to Hellinga’s listing. Built in 1897, it was designed by Charles Sumner Frost, the architect of Navy Pier, at least 100 buildings for the Chicago and North Western Railway, libraries in Morgan Park and Wheaton, and other buildings. In the 1930s the formal rooms were renovated by the brother-sister team of architect David Adler, architect and interior designer Frances Elkins. In the 1990s, Chicago architects John Vinci and Philip Hamp designed a two-story addition that contains a family room and two garages that can hold five cars.
Listing photos show large-scale formal rooms, a modern kitchen and casual dining combination, nine fireplaces and a third-floor playroom with quaint dormer windows on two sides and a mural of a garden covering the walls and ceiling. Outside are formal gardens designed by Doug Hoerr, a prominent Chicago landscape architect.
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