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Whitemarsh Hall was an estate owned by banking executive Edward T. Stotesbury and his wife, Eva, on 300 acres (1.2 km 2) of land in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, United States. [2] Designed by the Gilded Age architect Horace Trumbauer , it was built in 1921 and demolished in 1980.
Wyndmoor was the site of Whitemarsh Hall, the 300-acre (1.2 km 2) estate of banking executive Edward T. Stotesbury. The estate became a housing development in the late 1940s, and the 147-room mansion was demolished in 1980, but the columns of its portico and pieces of statuary survive in the neighborhoods of Wyndmoor.
In 1927, Stotesbury's fortune was estimated at $100 million ($1.8 billion today). While he withdrew $55 million from his J.P. Morgan account during the Great Depression , [ 5 ] the stock market crash and the depression further drained the value of his fortune, leaving him with an estimated $4 million ($100 million today) at the time of his ...
Lynnewood Hall: the Neoclassical mansion of industrialist and art collector Peter A. B. Widener in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Whitemarsh Hall: the 100,000 sq ft mansion of Edward T. Stotesbury designed by Horace Trumbauer outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Fans of Whitemarsh Hall on Facebook. Charles Currick Allom is alive and well regarded an hundred years later. Whitemarsh Hall opened October 21, 1921. I believe the Stotesbury Job was his most prolific work. Check out the hand made upper mantles in the primary rooms at Whitemarsh Hall. Many were antique and salvaged from torn down London Town ...
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.
As of the 2010 census, Whitemarsh Township was 90.7% White, 3.5% Black or African American, 0.1% Native American, 4.2% Asian, and 1.2% were two or more races. 1.7% of the population were of Hispanic or Latino ancestry . As of the 2000 census, [7] there were 16,702 people, 6,179 households, and 4,597 families residing in the township.
Alan West Corson Homestead is a historic house located in Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. It was built in three sections between 1734 and 1820. It is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, stuccoed stone dwelling, six bays wide and two bays deep. It has a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story rear ell. Also on the property is a contributing smoke house.