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Maybrook is a mansion and property located in Wynnewood, Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania in the Main Line suburban region just outside of Philadelphia. The mansion was built in 1881 as a summer home by liquor baron and real estate developer Henry C. Gibson and his wife, Mary B. Klett and six-year-old daughter Mary Klett "May" Gibson.
Courvoisier (French pronunciation:) is a brand of cognac, with production based in the town of Jarnac in the Charente region of France. It is the youngest and smallest of the "big four" cognac houses (the others are Hennessy , Rémy Martin , and Martell ).
Belmont was added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, June 26, 1956. The site continued to be used for public entertaining until it became a historic house museum under the management of the American Women's Heritage Society in 1986. The complex is also available for special events and rentals.
Commercial activity within Bella Vista is focused around the 9th Street Market and South Street Headhouse District.. Bella Vista was voted 2016 best neighborhood to live in Philadelphia by Niche.com [5] and is undergoing a new residential construction housing boom to meet demand; [6] in some cases adaptively reusing, [7] [8] in other cases replacing existing structures by destroying historic ...
The estate was completed in 1931, at a reported cost of $700,000. [7] The Philadelphia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects awarded Gilchrist its 1929 Gold Medal for Excellence for "Dolobran II." [8] Hundreds of drawings and photographs of the estate are in the Edmund Beaman Gilchrist Collection at the University of Pennsylvania. [9]
The first synagogue in the neighborhood was Beth Israel, which moved in 1909 from Eighth and Jefferson to 32nd and Montgomery. In 1913, a real estate broker placed an ad in the Philadelphia Jewish Herald encouraging Jews to leave South Philadelphia's Jewish quarter and move to the “fresh air” and “beautiful country landscape” of Strawberry Mansion. [2]
For the past four years, Taylor’s business, Italian Vice, has offered Miamians a taste of the popular Philadelphia dessert in 10 flavors, serving customers at first via a mobile food cart and ...
The Lower Merion Historical Society's efforts to raise funds and purchase the mansion were not successful. In August 2009, Benjamin Wohl, a Florida real estate developer, offered to buy La Ronda and move it to an adjoining lot to be his second home. [6] This would save the current owner an estimated $300,000 in demolition costs.