12/27/2023 0 Comments Cheltenham township auction lostIt was, and still is, Lynnewood Hall, the Neoclassical Revival home designed for Peter Arrell Brown Widener by Horace Trumbauer. Image courtesy Old York Road Historical Society. A real picture postcard of Lynnewood Hall. But there are afternoons when that creamy Indiana limestone looks gold in the late light, and reminds us that the mansion at 920 Spring Avenue in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, once glittered, once required the services of a hundred servants, and for two generations held one of the most important private art collections in the nation. ![]() I am vaguely aware that the natural environment is in the process of reclaiming the built, that the trees, covered with vines, have taken on that rounded, gumdrop look that occurs in wild, abandoned places that the building has become a kind of rock face we pass, an escarpment of the romantic past, rising up out of high grass. When I drive by it on my way to the post office, or coming back from Target, I never look too long.
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