Greatest Abandoned Gilded-Age Mansion in USA ~ Save Lynnewood Hall!



The team behind Lynnewood hall is putting the effort into the preservation of this incredible landmark. But they can not achieve this without your help, come to action and save Lynnewood hall! Everything is explained on their website ► http://www.lynnewoodhallpreservation.org
With this link, you can make a direct donation to the preservation efforts ► https://lynnewoodhallpreservation.org/donate/

Lynnewood hall is one of the biggest gilded-age mansions in the United States.

Around a century ago Mister Peter AB Widener ordered the architect Horace Trumbauer to design and build the mansion. Over the course of three years, this masterpiece was built and became one of the biggest mansions in the continental United States. The construction cost was 8 million dollars, calculating inflation that would be around 260 million today. With 110 rooms, 55 bedrooms, 20 Bathrooms, 5 art galleries, and many more common rooms that serve very specific purposes, Lynnewood Hall was a dream come true for Peter, it was unlike any gilded age mansion built before its time. Later on, the Mansion fell into the hands of Peter his son Joseph, who was fascinated by everything French and let the mansion be redesigned into a French country estate. Lynnewood hall is almost 2 times bigger than the White House, having a total of roughly 100K Square feet, inside the mansion, we also find the longest residential enfilade in the United States and the finest French gardens found in America, comparable to the gardens of the castle of Versailles… Being the largest mansion in Pennsylvania, we can see that the Widener family was no ordinary family, they left an everlasting footprint on this area, to give a more in-depth story of the family Edward is going to dissect their family tree and also the famed link with the RMS Titanic.

0:00 – Intro Lynnewood Hall
1:25 – History of Lynnewood Hall estate
3:45 – History of Widener Family
10:15 – Start of the tour
11:25 – The Great Hall
15:00 – Reception Room
20:00 – BallRoom
25:40 – Conservatory/Loggia & Enfilade
26:30 – Ball Room & Parties
29:00 – The Raphael Gallery
31:55 – Servants Quarters & Kitchen & Volt
34:30 – Smoking Room
36:35 – Dining Room
37:30 – Breakfast Room
38:50 – Basement of Lynnewood Hall
44:00 – Tunnels of Lynnewood
46:15 – Men’s Lounge
47:25 – The Great Hall Galleries
49:20 – Layout of Lynnewood Hall Bedrooms
52:20 – Eleanor Pancoast’s Bedroom
53:00 – Peter A. B. Widener’s Bedroom
55:45 – Joseph Widener’s Bedroom
58:25 – Peter & George Widener’s Bedroom
1:00:10 – Tutors Bedroom
1:00:55 – Eleanor Dixon’s Bedroom
1:02:05 – Eleanor Elkins Widener’s Bedroom
1:05:25 – Art Galleries in Lynnewood Hall
1:07:30 – Tea Room
1:09:15 – The Rembrandt Gallery
1:10:10 – The Bellini/Cellini Room
1:11:35 – The Organ Room
1:12:10 – The Van Dyck Gallery
1:16:35 – The Servants’ Quarters
1:19:00 – Skylights
1:20:15 – Pool & SPA
1:24:30 – Exterior of Lynnewood Hall
1:30:25 – Conservatory
1:32:05 – Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation

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20 thoughts on “Greatest Abandoned Gilded-Age Mansion in USA ~ Save Lynnewood Hall!”

  1. Hola chicos!!! Mis saludos desde Argentina. El trabajo que hacen es único impresionante y tu cada vez te esmeras mas por cada presentación es un trabajo genial!! Tú presencia tú forma para transmitir toda la historia de los distintos lugares…simplemente es genial. Si habría premios para esto te los llevarias todos. Es impresionante el trabajo que haces. Espero que puedas leer mi comentario, tenfras que traducirlo! Y si no me entiendes no importa. Solo decirte que es genial ti trabajo y total entrega!!! Saludos y exitos…se lo merecen!!!

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  2. When you have feet, divide by 3, so 45-50 feet would be 15 m(not 10). Also for areas, divide square feet by 10(roughly – for more precision, extract then another 5%) and you get the square meters. For example, 1000 sqft would be roughly 100 sqm and then -5% and you get 95 m(93m to be exact). Of course, for the americans, multiply by 3 to get feet and by 10 to get sqft. Too bad USA is still keeping this retrograde and backwards measurement system. Even the UK, which invented it, quit using it since the 1970s. I wonder where the world would be if every country, region or province kept its local measurement systems instead of switching to Metric(/InternationalSystem) starting with the early 1800s in France.

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  3. Thank you so much for your in-depth look at this beautiful mansion! I loved seeing the old pictures of what the place used to look like. if they could restore the main floor and some of the owners rooms and galleries and open it for tours like the biltmore does, they would make money hand over fist to continue to restore it and open up more rooms as they do, just like the biltmore did.

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  4. This is what happens with bad property taxes. The people who lived in homes like these eventually could not afford to live in their own homes. It happened in Britain and it happened here. Never mind that these places formerly hired dozens of people and provided income to communities. Very sad. Revise the tax codes that force people out of their homes, big and small.

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