I sometimes feel as if I'm invisible, as if no one can see me at all. I never felt that way when I lived at the Lake House. It's the one place. -Kate Foster (Sandra Bullock) in The Lake House
The Lake House - Chicago Provides an Authentic, Architecturally Rich Backdrop
In addition to the Maple Lake site, production encompassed approximately 40 separate locations in and around Chicago, a city selected not only for its geographic features that fit the story so perfectly but for its equally appropriate and renowned architectural heritage.
Many world-famous architects played a role in rebuilding the metropolis following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871; among them Frank Lloyd Wright, Daniel Burnham, Louis Sullivan and Mies van der Rohe. As Crowley attests, “It’s truly one of the great architectural cities in the world. Anyone who was anyone in the field built something there, and it gives downtown Chicago a look unlike anywhere else.”
Among the practical locations used in The Lake House are such recognizable landmarks as Roosevelt University, designed in the late 1880s by Louis Sullivan, which lent Crowley its vast library reading room to turn into Alex’s father’s design studio; the Artist’s Café in the downtown Fine Arts Building, built in 1885 and one of the last surviving structures of architect Solon Beman; and the historic Old Colony Building, designed by Holabird & Roche in 1894 and bearing the distinction of being, says location manager McAllister, “one of the first true skyscrapers in the country”; as well as Wyler’s Children’s Hospital at the University of Chicago Medical Complex in Hyde Park; and the Wrigleyville neighborhood adjacent to Wrigley Field.
Production also filmed at Daley Plaza, with its famous Picasso sculpture towering over one of the film’s most dramatic moments; as well as the city’s newly designed Millennium Park, home of the world-renowned steel sculpture “Cloud Gate,” by British artist Anich Kapoor, and the popular restaurant The Park Grill, which doubled here for the upscale restaurant Il Mare, where Kate and Alex hope to have their first meeting.
Moving outside the city, The Lake House production spent more than a week in the tree-lined suburb of Riverside, where a picturesque Metra Rail station stands in for an Amtrak stop where Alex gets his first fleeting glance at the woman he’s been writing to.
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