Saving A Mansion

Tuesday of this week I was driving home
and as usual I had the gps on
but I often take other roads
just to discover new things.



I didn't expect too much as I was not
in the best part of town.
In fact, I usually avoid this area altogether.



Ignoring the drug deal I just witnessed
on a busy intersection in broad daylight,
I continued driving.



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I discovered Lynnewood Hall.
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Researching this mansion,
I learned that it was designed by gilded age architect,
Horace Trumbauer for Peter A. Widener in the late 1800s.
(You really can't live in Philadelphia 
without stumbling across Trumbauer's works.) 

Today Lynnewood Hall is owned by the First Korean Church of New York
but it remains vacant because of a stalemate
between Cheltenham Twp. and the owners.
The owners wanted a zoning variance to use the property as a church,
the township has refused their appeal for a variance.

So the mansion sits vacant, neglected and crumbling.
It makes me angry that we will end up losing another
historically and architecturally significant masterpiece through neglect.

You can read more here about the history of Lynnewood Hall.

Please sign this petition!
You can also join the facebook group Save Lynnewood Hall.

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