Latest News Update About Lynnewood Hall:Lynnewood Hall is a 110-room Neoclassical Revival mansion in Elkins Park, Montgomery County. Considered the largest surviving Gilded Age mansion in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area[1], it was designed by Horace Trumbauer for industrialist Peter A. B. Widener between 1897 and 1900 and housed one of the most important Gilded Age private art collections of European master pieces and decorative arts assembled by Widener and his son Joseph.Peter A. B. Widener died at Lynnewood Hall at the age of 80 November 6, 1915 after prolonged poor health.[2]
He was preceded in death by his son, George Dunton Widener, his grandson Harry and their valet who all died when the RMS Titanic sank in 1912.
Built from Indiana limestone, Lynnewood Hall measures 325 feet long by 215 feet deep.[3] In addition to the large art gallery, the 110-room estate also included a ballroom, swimming pool, wine cellars, a farm and an electrical power plant. The spectacular collection at Lynnewood Hall (dubbed "The last of the American Versailles" by Widener's grandson) was on public view daily from 1915 to 1940 between June and October. In 1940, Joseph E. Read More
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