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The Elkins Estate is a 42-acre (170,000 m 2) estate located in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, United States. ... In 1932, William H. Elkins, grandson of William L. Elkins ...
In his Elkins Estate at the time of death, he owned and displayed coveted artworks, including works from Donatello, Winslow Homer, Jan Steen, Jean-François Millet, and Jacob Van Ruisdael. [12] Among his philanthropic gifts, William Elkins left $240,000 to the Masonic Home for Girls in Philadelphia. He bequeathed his art collection to the city ...
Elkins Estate, former family summer home of Pennsylvania Railroad magnate William L. Elkins; High School Park, an 11-acre park with four distinct ecosystems, was the original grounds of Cheltenham High School and became a township park in 1996 after the building burned down; Lynnewood Hall, a 110-room, Gilded Age mansion
Biltmore Estate: Asheville, North Carolina: George Washington Vanderbilt II: The Biltmore Company [3] 1895: Châteauesque: Richard Morris Hunt and Frederick Law Olmsted: 2: 109,848 sq ft (10,205.2 m 2) Lynnewood Hall: Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: Peter A. B. Widener [4] Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation: 1899: Neoclassical: Horace Trumbauer ...
Elstowe Manor: the 60,000 sq ft mansion of William L. Elkins in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; Fallingwater: a Frank Lloyd Wright designed house in Bear Run, Pennsylvania; Grange Estate: Haverford, Pennsylvania, built in 1700, home of patriot John Ross
In 1932 William H. Elkins, grandson of William L. Elkins, sold the Elkins Park property to the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine de' Ricci. The Sisters operated both buildings as a women’s religious retreat and preserved the grounds and historical integrity of the buildings.
Teresa Collar still remembers getting the haunting call about her daughter's murder in October 2020. Her daughter, 24-year-old Alyssa Burkett, was killed on Oct. 2, 2020, by ex-boyfriend Andrew Beard.
William Lukens Elkins (1832–1903), American businessman William McIntire Elkins (1882–1947), American collector of rare books and Dickensiana William Lewis Elkin (1855–1933), American astronomer