MLSN Members only: Towers & Turrets: Victorian Mansions on the Main Line, 1870-1905

Code: SL51809

Dates: November 1, 2024

Meets: 12 N to 2:00 PM

Sessions: 1

Location: Creutzburg Center 102

Course Fee: $40.00

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This talk examines the great Victorian era mansions on Philadelphia’s Main Line and their style. It focuses on those for the Baldwin Locomotive Works partners, Pennsylvania Railroad officers, and leading industrialists and manufacturers. Architects featured include Furness & Evans, T.P. Chandler, Wilson Brothers, William L. Price and G.W. & W.D. Hewitt.

Fee:	$40.00

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Creutzburg Center 102

260 Gulph Creek Road
(in Harford Park)
Radnor, PA 19087
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Jeff Groff

Jeff Groff recently retired as Estate Historian at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. He also served as Director of Public Programs and Director of Interpretation. For sixteen years he was Executive Director of Wyck Historic House and Garden in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. He holds an MA from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture of the University of Delaware. For over forty years he has studied and lectured on American country houses and gardens, particularly those of Philadelphia’s “Main Line” and surrounding areas, with an emphasis on country life and sports, and gentleman farming. He served as co-curator of Winterthur’s very successful exhibitions “Costumes of Downton Abbey” and “Costuming The Crown."

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MLSN Members only: Towers & Turrets: Victorian Mansions on the Main Line, 1870-1905

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