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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.
They went on to build three palatial estates: Whitemarsh Hall outside Philadelphia by architect Horace Trumbauer (1916–21, demolished 1980) El Mirasol in Palm Beach, Florida by architect Addison Mizner (1919, demolished 1950s) Wingwood House in Bar Harbor, Maine by architectural firm Magaziner, Eberhard & Harris (1927, demolished 1953) [4]
Whitemarsh Hall: Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania: Edward T. Stotesbury (demolished ... “The Olana” Walter Wedding Estates 2002 [95] French Baroque Architecture: 69: 47,000 ...
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He died a bachelor, leaving the estate to his brother Joshua." [5] Upon Morris's death in 1770, his brother Joshua sold the property to William West, another Philadelphia merchant. During the autumn of 1777, Washington's Continental Army spent six weeks camped at nearby Whitemarsh.
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 ...