Lynnewood Hall: Majestic Ruins Continue!
By Avik, Gaea News NetworkTuesday, July 27, 2010
MONTGOMERY (GaeaTimes.com) — Lynnewood Hall is a famed architecture located in Elkin’s Park, Montgomery County, PA. Lynnewood happens to be the last surviving Gilded Age mansion in the country. The Cheltenham Zoning Board is looking for ways to save this historic building.
The current owners are thinking of getting this mansion to be a holy place, supposedly a church. PA Supreme Court has cut short their ideas and put a stay order in 2001.
The house was designed for Peter Widener between 1897 and 1900 by Horace Trumbauer. Trumbauer though not an award winning architect, but was paid well to design huge mansions for his clients. When commissioning Grey Towers Castle (now part of Arcadia University) he met Peter Widener who wanted an mansion built in the Georgia-Style with the best the Gilded Age had to offer. What he got was Lynnewood Hall.
The Lynnewood Hall is said to have 110 room estate and was considered heaven on earth. From pool to wine cellar and even power plant is there to add to its majestic sense.
Such a magnificent creation should not be smashed to ground. We must try to save Lynnewood.
