Art collection The Raphael Room at Lynnewood Hall, William Bruce Ellis Ranken, 1917įrom 1915 to 1940, the spectacular art collection at Lynnewood Hall was open to the public by appointment between June and October. In addition to 55 bedrooms, the 110-room mansion had a large art gallery, a ballroom large enough for 1,000 guests, swimming pool, wine cellars, a farm, carpentry and upholstery studios, and an electrical power plant.Ī 2014 Philadelphia Inquirer article described the mansion as 'dripping with silk, velvet, and gilded moldings, the rooms furnished with chairs from Louis XV's palace, Persian rugs, and Chinese pottery, the halls crammed with art by Raphael, Rembrandt, El Greco, van Dyck, Donatello.' TIME magazine published an account of a lavish party held at Lynnewood Hall in 1932. Description īuilt from Indiana limestone, the T-shaped Lynnewood Hall (dubbed 'The last of the American Versailles' by Widener's grandson) measures 325 feet (99 m) long by 215 feet (66 m) deep. It is presently being renovated by the Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation, which announced a purchase agreement for the estate in February of 2023. 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. 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. Peter Widener died at Lynnewood Hall at the age of 80 on November 6, 1915, after prolonged poor health. 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. Currently undergoing renovations after sitting nearly vacant for years, it was designed by architect Horace Trumbauer for industrialist Peter A. Lynnewood Hall is a 110-room Neoclassical Revival mansion in Elkins Park, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation (purchased from First Korean Church of New York in 2023)

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