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The collection had been assembled by Widener and his younger son, Joseph E. Widener. Peter Widener died at Lynnewood Hall at the age of 80 on November 6, 1915, after prolonged poor health. [1] He was predeceased by his elder son George Dunton Widener and grandson Harry Elkins Widener, both of whom died when RMS Titanic sank in 1912.
Peter Arrell Browne Widener (November 13, 1834 – November 6, 1915) was an American businessman, art collector, and patriarch of the Widener family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [1] Widener was ranked #29 on the American Heritage list of the forty richest Americans in history, with a net worth at death of $44 billion to $48 billion (in 2024 ...
The Widener family is an American family from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded by Peter Arrell Browne Widener (1834–1915) and his wife, Hannah Josephine Dunton (1836–1896), it was once one of the wealthiest families in the United States.
Peter A. B. Widener mansion, Broad Street and Girard Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1887), Willis G. Hale, architect. Widener donated the mansion to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1899, which used it as a branch library from 1900 to 1946. It burned in 1980, and was demolished. Date: circa 1899
Peter A. B. Widener Mansion, Broad St. & Girard Ave., Philadelphia, PA (1887, demolished). Widener's art gallery at far left, also by Hale, was added in 1892. He also designed urban developments for street-car magnates Peter A. B. Widener and William L. Elkins, and a massive city house for Widener at the corner of Broad Street and Girard Avenue.
Hale designed, and Maene's shop carved exterior stonework for the Peter A. B. Widener city house (1887–88), at the northwest corner of Broad Street and Girard Avenue, Philadelphia. [17] The Wideners occupied this for barely a decade—architect Horace Trumbauer soon designed them a Neoclassical palace, Lynnewood Hall (1897-1900), just outside ...
Dining room of the Peter A. B. Widener house, Philadelphia (1887).. Born in Munich to German landscape painter Hermann Ottomar Herzog, he trained under the ornamental painter Joseph Schwarzmann, and at Munich's Royal Academy of Arts.
Peter Arrell Browne Widener II (June 25, 1895 – April 20, 1948) was a prominent American racehorse owner and breeder. He inherited a fortune from his father, Joseph E. Widener , a founding benefactor of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. (and younger son of the extremely wealthy business magnate Peter Arrell Browne Widener ).