Group hopes to restore historic Lynnewood Hall back to age-old grandeur

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  • Опубликовано: 19 авг 2024
  • Sitting on 35 acres in Elkins Park, Lynnewood Hall is a 110-room relic of the Gilded Age. A mansion where the wealthy, Widner Family displayed the work of the world’s greatest painters in five galleries. While the mansion, built in 1900, still holds its impressive size and architecture, most of the structure has fallen into disrepair.
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Комментарии • 30

  • @ellenmax2826
    @ellenmax2826 Год назад +17

    Such monumental structure represents American’s true golden past in grandeur that the full restoration in respect its original architectural elements ( including its formal garden ) are essential for this place to radiant through history … with an efficient business plan to allow this place with economic success yet not to loose its elegance is highly possible ( top quality hospitality use, on going culture events for art and stately and global conferences … the possibilities are endless ). It also will add local tourism attraction and bring unforeseen businesses to boost local commerce. My heart goes for its triumph transformation !

  • @greeneyedwarlock882
    @greeneyedwarlock882 3 месяца назад +2

    CANNOT BELIEEEEEEEEVE ANYONE bought this crumbling masterpiece!!! The mind races with the possibilities........I just hope and pray beyond description that it can be saved and truly, properly restored.

  • @dmd5645
    @dmd5645 Год назад +4

    ❤️ from Michigan! Thank you for covering this great story of preservation!!!.

  • @WillieChristopher-ne4my
    @WillieChristopher-ne4my 2 месяца назад +1

    Iam glad to see that it will be saved and have a new life and purpose

  • @toysreviewgirl3872
    @toysreviewgirl3872 16 дней назад

    Good job a landmark like that deserves attention

  • @JonesJones-np2kq
    @JonesJones-np2kq Год назад +5

    I wish 🙏🏾 all the best on this endeavor, it’s great to see, please start a RUclips channel for restoration to help raise funds! I’m tired of seeing French château’s

  • @ItsMe-yv9jd
    @ItsMe-yv9jd Год назад +5

    Good to see they were able to buy it back from the property developer living in China, that abandoned it for years. Not sure restoring the gardens first and then restoring the interiors after, is the best way to attract paying visitors.... they might want to consider making RUclips videos, to share the restoration process and add historic stories about the property, and the furniture and art collections that were auctioned off.

    • @henrylivingstone2971
      @henrylivingstone2971 3 месяца назад +1

      It wasn’t a property developer in China. It was a Korean reverend living in Pennsylvania. The mansion was owned by a Christian church based in PA.

    • @ItsMe-yv9jd
      @ItsMe-yv9jd 3 месяца назад

      @@henrylivingstone2971 Noted...

  • @janetcarbone4213
    @janetcarbone4213 9 месяцев назад +2

    Please do save it❤❤❤❤

  • @GIRLRAZR
    @GIRLRAZR Месяц назад

    PHILADELPHIA IS A MIGHTY AND POWERFUL CITY INDEED! =)

  • @allenmurray7893
    @allenmurray7893 Год назад +2

    It'll be great if that can happen.

  • @MarvinWhite-sn9zn
    @MarvinWhite-sn9zn Год назад +3

    Needs 200 mill

  • @pheanix69
    @pheanix69 4 месяца назад

    Bring the property brothers they would to restore this historical beauty back to is original grandeur

  • @monkeygraborange
    @monkeygraborange 6 месяцев назад

    Imagine, garnering a vast fortune on the backs of hundreds of thousands of disposable people and now begging their descendants to pay to restore what the original owners clearly didn’t give a shlt about maintaining?

  • @illiniwood
    @illiniwood Год назад +1

    This preservation foundation need to be completely transparent. After all, this country doesn't need another Disney agenda.

  • @petergozinya6122
    @petergozinya6122 Год назад

    Raze the edifice and build nice new townhouses.

    • @bwofficial1776
      @bwofficial1776 Год назад +10

      Screw history and architecture, right? Let's bulldoze everything over 20 years old and replace it with an identical featureless box. This house is beautiful and a monument to a past era.

    • @yvonneplant9434
      @yvonneplant9434 Год назад +3

      George Widener was an example of the Gilded Age on steroids. He and his son died on the Titanic. He was one of the richest people in the country at the time.

    • @bobbbobb4663
      @bobbbobb4663 Год назад +2

      Been there, done that with Whitemarsh Hall in the 80’s.

    • @paulcarfantan6688
      @paulcarfantan6688 Год назад +1

      @@yvonneplant9434 Yes but it`s his father Peter A.B. Widener who built this place. It was inaugurated in December 1899.

    • @michaelangelo-the-singer-br549
      @michaelangelo-the-singer-br549 Год назад +1

      💩💩🤬🤬

  • @BeauQuillen
    @BeauQuillen Год назад

    Only a future Billionaire Beauregard Quillen could live there.