lynnewood hall

Lynn Wood Hall, a century-old building, just outside Philadelphia, the dazed and silent, almost invisible, pine trees 200 feet above a two-lane asphalt crumbling away like a little Versailles.The ornate fountain, that hundreds of wealthy visitors welcomed President Franklin Roosevelt was among them, dismantled and sold years ago. After the carefully carved from the French gardens of weeds and overgrown with vines. Classical facade of Indiana limestone also lost their luster, but the attitude - at least from the other side of the rusted iron gates to the curious at bay.Gilded Age mansions like the rest of the nation's pre-Depression industrial titans, Lynnwood Hall, a relic of a bygone era, an uncertain future.

Then their fate as the neighboring Whitemarsh Hall, demolished the house in the banking magnate Edward Stotesbury? Or, will return to its former glory, as the artisan Alfred I. Dupont de Nemours, a former mansion in Delaware?Among the booty was a 480-hectare estate in the central of the 110 rooms and 70,000 square meters of the Georgian-style palace, designed by architect Horace Trumbauer.Lynnwood Hall was completed at the end of 1900 and cost $ 8,000,000, to build - more than 212 million U.S. dollars into U.S. dollars today.There was a ballroom, to 1,000 people, an indoor pool, squash courts, a bakery and full-time owner of upholstery and carpentry shops. The property boasted its own station, racecourse and stables, and a 220 acre farm operated by the 100th staff.