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Lynnewood Hall is a 110-room Neoclassical Revival mansion in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.It was designed by architect Horace Trumbauer for industrialist Peter A. B. Widener and built between 1897 and 1899.
In 1900, he completed Lynnewood Hall in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, a 110-room Georgian-style mansion designed by Horace Trumbauer. Widener was an avid art collector, [10] with a collection that included more than a dozen paintings by Rembrandt, as well as works by then-new artists Édouard Manet and Auguste Renoir.
Joseph Early Widener (August 19, 1871 – October 26, 1943) was a wealthy American art collector who was a founding benefactor of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. A major figure in thoroughbred horse racing , he was head of New York 's Belmont Park and builder of Miami 's Hialeah Park racetrack in Florida.
Lynnewood Hall. Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. In 1897, construction was started on Lynnewood Hall, which was designed by architect Horace Trumbauer for Peter A.B. Widener, one of the richest men in ...
Harrison introduced him to the streetcar tycoon and real-estate developer Peter A. B. Widener, whose 110-room Georgian-revival palace, Lynnewood Hall (1897–1900), launched Trumbauer's successful career. [1] For the Wideners, the Elkins, and their circle he designed mansions in Philadelphia, New York City, and Newport, Rhode Island. Through ...
Portrait of Peter A. B. Widener, a 1902 portrait of Peter Arrell Browne Widener by John Singer Sargent Lynnewood Hall in 2007 The Miramar mansion. The Widener family is an American family from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania Raphael Room, Lynnewood Hall. He was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, the elder child and only son of Joseph Early Widener (1871–1943) and his wife, Eleanor "Ella" Holmes Pancoast (1874–1929).
Lynnewood Hall: Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: Peter A. B. Widener [4] Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation: 1899: Neoclassical: Horace Trumbauer: 3: 109,000 sq ft (10,100 m 2) [5] Oheka Castle: West Hills, New York: Otto Hermann Kahn: Gary Melius [6] 1919: Châteauesque: Delano and Aldrich: 4 105,000 sq ft (9,800 m 2) The One: Bel Air, Los ...