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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.
Edward T. Stotesbury. Edward Townsend "Ned" Stotesbury (February 26, 1849 – May 16, 1938) was a prominent investment banker, a partner in Philadelphia's Drexel & Co. and its New York affiliate J. P. Morgan & Co. for over fifty-five years.
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.
Martin and Hall; George Frederic Hall: 37 (tie) ~55,000 sq ft (5,100 m 2) Rockwood Hall: Mount Pleasant, New York: William Rockefeller (demolished in 1942) 1849: Castellated Elizabethan: Gervase Wheeler, Carrère and Hastings: 43: 54,838 sq ft (5,094.6 m 2) [56] Dumbarton Oaks: Washington, D.C. William Hammond Dorsey: Harvard University: 1801 ...
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 ...
The subsequent discovery of limestone in the township itself drew new settlers to Whitemarsh. [3] In 1704, Whitemarsh Township was incorporated. At that time, it was located in Philadelphia County. In 1784, Montgomery County was created, and Whitemarsh was made part of it, becoming one of the new county's 28 original communities. Throughout the ...
The 2016 Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, population was 10,796. There were 2,229 people per square mile (population density). The racial makeup of the town was 88.48% White, 4.47% African American, 4.62% Asian, 0.00% Native American, and 0.00% 'Other'. 1.95% of the people in Lafayette Hill (zip 19444), Pennsylvania, claim hispanic ethnicity (meaning 98.06% are non-hispanic).
Hope Lodge is a historic building located at 553 South Bethlehem Pike in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, in the United States.This mansion has been described as "one of the finest examples of Georgian Colonial architecture in this part of the country. [3]