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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 ...
This is a list of the 100+ largest extant and historic houses in the United States, ordered by area of the main house. The list includes houses that have been demolished, houses that are currently under construction, and buildings that are not currently, but were previously used as private homes.
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. PA-18, "Hope Lodge, Bethlehem and Skippack Pikes, Whitemarsh, Montgomery County, PA", 6 photos, 13 measured drawings, 2 data pages; Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission "Through a Looking Glass: Colonial and Colonial Revival Hope Lodge" article from Pennsylvania Heritage Magazine
Meadow Brook Hall, Matilda Dodge House: 1929 Tudor Revival: William E. Kapp. Smith, Hinchman & Grylls. Rochester Hills: Today it is the Meadow Brook Hall Museum Ransom Gillis House: 1876 Venetian Gothic: Henry T. Brush & George D. Mason: Detroit: Abandoned since 1970 until its restoration in 2015 Franklin H. Walker House: 1896 Neo-Jacobean ...
Emlen House, Washington's headquarters at White Marsh, in 2007. On November 2, at the recommendation of his council of war, Washington marched his forces to White Marsh, approximately 13 miles (21 km) northwest of Philadelphia. [10] Washington established headquarters at the Emlen House, where he and his aides were quartered. [11]
Whitemarsh Hall, a countryside estate in the U.S. was demolished in 1980, along with its extensive gardens, to make way for suburban developments. In Paris, London or Rome , many large mansions and palazzi built or remodeled during the era still survive.