American Versailles: Philadelphia’s Lynnewood Hall

Name: American Versailles: Philadelphia’s Lynnewood Hall
Start: 2025-09-06T13:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-09-06T14:30:00-07:00
Location: Zoom

Schedule

Sat Sep 06 2025 at 01:00 pm to 02:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Zoom | San Jose, CA

Join us Saturday, Sept. 6th at 1pm Pacific / 4pm Eastern for: AMERICAN VERSAILLES: PHILADELPHIA’s LYNNEWOOD HALL”. Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/4917551932524/WN_TgsMfjKkRxOMfUfyH5n42A#/registration.
Perhaps no house better personifies the American idea of the great British country house than Lynnewood Hall. Located just outside Philadelphia, this enormous Neoclassical house is considered one of the greatest surviving Gilded Age mansions in the US. Designed by the prominent, American, Gilded Age architect Horace Trumbauer, Lynnewood Hall was built between 1897 and 1899 for P.A.B. Widener, who made an enormous fortune from streetcars and investments in steel, tobacco, and oil. Though it has the longest façade of any residence in the United States and once featured one of the finest French gardens in America, the jewel in Lynnewood’s crown was its art collection, considered the finest private art collection in the world by the 1920s. Art Historian and Curator for American Ancestors, Curt DiCamillo returns to the Forum to share the compelling story of Lynnewood Hall.