No visitor to Philadelphia gardens can feel that he has seen the best unless his list includes the gardens of Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury’at Chestnut Hill.
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| Photograph by Dallin Aerial Survey Courtesy Department of Landscape Architecture, Harvard University |
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| "Whitemarsh Hall" |
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| Here is a notable example of the formal French style. |
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ReplyDelete…..in a way, it’s better it’s all gone. It was a dream really. Look at the outskirts, all that’s. Even filled in with hideous development. I explored this house all through the 1970’s. Even if it had been saved, it was just too big to maintain. The only way it would’ve worked is if the Stotesbury’s had given it to the PMA with an $10 million endowment and bequeathed their art collection and entire house in tact as they lived in it. This would’ve made the surrounding area untouchable……certainly not the grab-all that it did when it can to cheap land and tacky houses. It was all constructed so methodically by the very very best team of profession men and the keen eye of a great Lady. The original Crime was the utter vandalism committed by Pennsalt. The also polluted the Earth around the house. Everything they did was in absolute disregard of any reverence for what they had in their hands.
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