In the Deal Estate section of Chicago Magazine, we peeked inside the former Lake Forest home of Ginevra King, F. Scott Fitzgerald's first love and the woman who inspired the unforgettable Daisy Buchanan in The Great Gatsby. It's a lot like how you'd expect Daisy Buchanan's home to look: sweeping staircases, chandeliers, and wrap-around terraces. More below.
The house was built in 1905 by Chicago banker Charles King. His daughter, Ginevra, met F. Scott Fitzgerald in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1915. They went on have a two-year romance while Fitzgerald was at Princeton, before Ginevra married a wealthy Chicagoan and Scott went on to meet and marry Zelda Sayre. Click here to read the full article.
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the asymmetrical shutters are driving me nuts.
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Important though she was to Fitzgerald, she couldn't have been admitted to Princeton's undergraduate program until 1969. That is when women were first admitted to the college---so no tiger tattoo on Ginerva King.
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Thanks, krister. Fixed the mistake in the post.
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Thanks, Sarah C.
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