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Built by Beaux-Arts architect Horace Trumbauer between 1916 and 1921, the neo-Georgian mansion consisted of 6 stories (3 of which were partly or fully underground), 147 rooms, 45 bathrooms, 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2), and specialty rooms including a ballroom, gymnasium, movie theatre, and even a refrigerating plant. It had been a wedding present from Stotesbury to his second wife, Eva.
Whitemarsh Hall had often been called the "American Versailles", because of attention to detail in the gardens and in the main building.
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In 1943 the mansion was sold for $167,000 to the Pennwalt Chemical Corporation to make into a research laboratory. 20 years later, in 1963, Pennwalt built a new research center in the King of Prussia area and moved out of Whitemarsh Hall. The property was neglected and vandalised over the following years.
After the house was demolished in 1980, a development of modern townhouses called Stotesbury Estates was built on the property. Some small remnants of the huge gardens still exist today. There is a fountain, several statues, pieces of low concrete fence and the belvedere. This model shows what Whitemarsh looked during the 1920's. #art #detailed #georgian #gilded #Hall #historic #house #mansion #ruins #stotesbury #style #Whitemarsh
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