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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
On Camp Hill Road in Whitemarsh is the corporate headquarters of Johnson & Johnson division McNeil Consumer & Specialty Pharmaceuticals, marketers of over-the-counter and prescription pharmaceuticals including Tylenol (acetaminophen) and Motrin IB products. Their building is based on a 110-acre (45 ha) site and has a workforce of 2,600 employees.