Philly Bricks

During the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, the northeast and its countrysides were the playground for America's wealthy industrialis...

When I was in middle school, my family moved to a farm in rural Virginia. The house had been unusually divided into apartments for the exten...

Chelnetham Township's commissioner, Harvey Portner has said little about the forlorn Lynnewood Hall, at least nothing more than "it...

Type "Lynnewood Hall" into Google Maps. See it? It comes right up. That's how infamous the Horace Trumbauer mansion has become...

Lynewood Hall, coined "The Last of the American Versailles" by it's owner, Peter A. B. Widener's grandson. Although the 11...

Completed in 1921 by renowned architect Horace Trumbauer (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Free Library of Philadelphia), Whitemarsh Hall in Wynd...