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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 ...
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 ...
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]
From derelict Gilded Age mansions in America to decrepit ruins of dictator largesse around the world, these 10 abandoned mansions are frightfully fascinating.
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.
The main house of Ward Hall’s Greek Revival antebellum plantation mansion covers a staggering 12,000 square feet. By comparison, Henry Clay’s Ashland covers 8,184 square feet and the Waveland ...
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.