In 1898, Drake acquired property on the south shore of Geneva Lake, Wis., from Arthur Kaye and hired Howard Van Doren Shaw to design a summer home there for his family. "Aloha Lodge", a Southern colonial architecture-style country estate, was completed in March 1901. The name was inspired by the Drakes' recent travels to Hawaii, where the family befriended the recently deposed Hawaii'an queen Lilliuokalani.[3]
In Chicago, Drake and his brother John acquired the property for the Drake Hotel from the estate of Potter Palmer in 1916 after it gave up on the idea of building a hotel itself.[4] The Drake Hotel opened on New Year's Eve in 1920.[5]
Personal life
He is the grandfather of the American film actress and writer Betsy Drake, who was the third wife of Hollywood actor Cary Grant,
Notes
^Berger, Miles L., "They Built Chicago: Entrepreneurs Who Shaped a Great City's Architecture," Bonus Books, Inc., Chicago, 1992, p. 159., ISBN.
^Berger, Miles L., "They Built Chicago: Entrepreneurs Who Shaped a Great City's Architecture," Bonus Books, Inc., Chicago, 1992, p. 152., ISBN0-929387-76-7.
^Wolfmeyer, Ann; et al. (1976). Lake Geneva: Newport of the West, 1870-1920, Vol. 1. Lake Geneva Historical Society. pp. 143–144.
^Stamper, John W., "Chicago's North Michigan Avenue," pp. 118-122, The University of Chicago Press, 1991, ISBN0-226-77085-0.
^History, Drake Hotel, Retrieved 10 September 2016
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