12. Deer was originally located in the front lawn of the home at 644 East Deerpath Road in Lake Forest. At the time of the statue’s creation, the property was owned by the Thomas Byrne family. Around the year 1901, Thomas Byrne hired a landscape gardener from Japan to create a Japanese garden for the property. Many small sculptures were ordered for the project. Around the same time, Byrne commissioned an Austrian sculptor to create a statue of a deer to stand at the front of the property. The name of the sculptor is unknown. Byrne, an avid sportsman, believed a deer statue belonged on Deerpath Road, given the large deer population in the area. It is worth noting, however, that the statue depicts a European species. An actual deer of this kind is not to be found in Lake Forest. The statue originally had antlers, but these were later removed. For several years, the statue was “deernapped” on Halloween by students from Lake Forest College who moved it to the nearby campus only to return it days later. The Byrne children would try to stay awake to witness the “deernapping,” but to no avail. The property’s subsequent owners, the Muzzy family, decided to give the statue to the City of Lake Forest. The statue was installed at its current location in Triangle Park during the late 1960s. Since then, residents of the area have decorated the statue for the seasons.