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Whitemarsh Hall : The Estate of Edward T. Stotesbury by Edward C. Zwicker, Springfield Township Historical Society and Charles G. Zwicker (2004, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherArcadia Publishing

ISBN-101531621139

ISBN-139781531621131

eBay Product ID (ePID)240040502

Product Key Features

Book TitleWhitemarsh Hall : the Estate of Edward T. Stotesbury

LanguageEnglish

TopicUnited States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Buildings / Residential, History / General

Publication Year2004

IllustratorYes

GenreArchitecture, History

AuthorEdward C. Zwicker, Springfield Township Historical Society, Charles G. Zwicker

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight14.6 Oz

Item Length9.6 in

Item Width6.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal974.8/11

SynopsisWhitemarsh Hall, known as "the Versailles of America," was one of the largest and most exquisite estates in North America. Edward Townsend Stotesbury, one of the wealthiest Philadelphians in the early twentieth century, commissioned renowned architect Horace Trumbauer to build the one-hundred-forty-sevenroom mansion in 1916 on three hundred acres just outside Philadelphia. Whitemarsh Hall, which took five years to build at an estimated cost of $10 million with all the furnishings, was a wedding present for his second wife. This book explores Whitemarsh Hall's construction, its heyday in the 1920s, the multiple impacts of the Great Depression, Stotesbury's death, and subsequent ownership over the next four decades, culminating in its eventual submission to decay, vandalism, and the wrecking ball in 1980.