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The museum is a program of the Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art. It opened in 1971 through the efforts of "Frolic" Weymouth, who also served on its board. [2]In September 2021, the museum's lower level was flooded due to the remnants of Hurricane Ida with mechanical systems, lecture rooms, classrooms and office spaces damaged and estimates around $6 million. [3]
In 1979 Lady Bird Johnson dedicated the gardens to Ford B. Draper and Henry A. Thouron for their contributions to the Brandywine Conservancy. The gardens include wildflowers, trees, and shrubs set within landscaped woodlands, wetland, flood plain, and meadow.
Karl Kuerner died in 1979, followed by Anna in 1997. In 1999, the farm was acquired by the Brandywine Conservancy, which offers tours of the farm through its Brandywine River Museum. [3] It was designated as a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. In 2014, the listing was expanded to include ...
Penguin Court, the former family home of the late Tribune-Review publisher Richard M. Scaife, was converted in 2019 into a preserve of the Brandywine Conservancy, a nonprofit located in Delaware ...
The trips commence at the Conservancy's Winter Field Office at the Zane Grey Museum in Lackawaxen, PA and run from 11am-3pm. Snow dates for the trips are the Sundays immediately following.
Frolic was the chairman of the board of the Brandywine Conservancy from that point on until his death. [6] The organization has permanently protected from development more than 62,000 acres in southeastern Pennsylvania and northern Delaware. In 1969, Weymouth donated his property to the Brandywine Conservancy as its first conservation easement.
Betsy Wyeth was a defender and restorer of the Brandywine region's vernacular architecture. [2] She helped to save a 19th-century gristmill by encouraging a neighbour, George Weymouth, to buy it and turn it into a museum. [2] This opened in 1971 as the Brandywine River Museum (now known as the Brandywine Museum of Art). [6]
Beaver Valley (formerly known as Chandler's Hollow) straddles the Pennsylvania and Delaware border in Delaware County, PA and New Castle County, DE. An unincorporated place name, it is traversed by several streams which drain to Beaver Run which itself empties into the Brandywine River. It is approximately bounded by US Route 202 to the east ...