Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation (purchased from First Korean Church of New York in 2023)
Height
215 square feet (20.0 m2)
Dimensions
Diameter
325 square feet (30.2 m2)
Technical details
Floor area
110,000 square feet (10,000 m2)
Design and construction
Architect(s)
Horace Trumbauer
Lynnewood Hall is a 110-room Neoclassical Revival mansion in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. Currently undergoing renovations[1] after sitting nearly vacant for years, it was designed by architect Horace Trumbauer for industrialist Peter A. B. Widener and built between 1897 and 1900. Considered the largest surviving Gilded Age mansion in the Philadelphia area, it housed one of the most important Gilded Age private art collections of European masterpieces and decorative arts, which had been assembled by Widener and his younger son, Joseph E. Widener.
Peter Widener died at Lynnewood Hall at the age of 80 on November 6, 1915, after prolonged poor health.[2] He was predeceased by his elder son George Dunton Widener and grandson Harry Elkins Widener, both of whom died when RMS Titanic sank in 1912. The structure changed hands a few times over the subsequent decades, with large portions of the estate grounds sold off in the 1940s, and has been predominantly vacant since 1952, when it was purchased by a theological seminary that started selling off the interior detailing.
It is presently being renovated by the Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation, which announced a purchase agreement for the estate in February of 2023.[1]
^ abRobinson, Carla. "Purchase agreement reached for historic Lynnewood Hall: Pottstown investor funds Gilded Age mansion's preservation foundation". The Chestnut Hill Local. Retrieved February 9, 2023.
^"P.A.B. Widener, Capitalist, Dies". The New York Times. November 7, 1915. Retrieved January 5, 2019.
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