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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.
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 ...
Today, it remains home to many gilded age mansions such as Lynnewood Hall, a 110-room, neoclassical estate, the Elkins Estate presently being restored as a hotel-spa, distillery and events center [6] and the Henry West Breyer Sr. House, the former residence of the ice cream magnate which now serves as the Cheltenham Township Municipal building. [7]
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.
From derelict Gilded Age mansions in America to decrepit ruins of dictator largesse around the world, these 10 abandoned mansions are frightfully fascinating.
This is a list of the 100+ largest extant and historic houses in the United States, ordered by area of the main house. The list includes houses that have been demolished, houses that are currently under construction, and buildings that are not currently, but were previously used as private homes.
The house was originally built in 1927 and redesigned in 1984 by businessman Mark Slotkin. The property boasts a pool and private tennis court, alongside a two-story guesthouse and two-car garage.
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.