Philadelphia Industrialists, Financiers & Manufacturers and Their Country Estates, 1875-1930

Code: SL51806

Dates: October 27, 2023

Meets: 12 N to 2:00 PM

Sessions: 1

Location: Creutzburg Center 101

Course Fee: $49.00

Sorry, we are no longer accepting registrations for this course. Please contact our office to find out if it will be rescheduled, or if alternative classes are available.

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The focus is on the leading families and the businesses that once made Philadelphia known as the workshop of the world. This class highlights their Main Line and Chester County houses including many that may not be well known today. Lunch is included.

Fee:	$49.00

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Creutzburg Center 101

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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Philadelphia Industrialists, Financiers & Manufacturers and Their Country Estates, 1875-1930

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