Item #178578 Ardrossan: The Last Great Estate on the Philadelphia Main Line. David Nelson Wren.
Ardrossan: The Last Great Estate on the Philadelphia Main Line
Ardrossan: The Last Great Estate on the Philadelphia Main Line
Ardrossan: The Last Great Estate on the Philadelphia Main Line
Ardrossan: The Last Great Estate on the Philadelphia Main Line
Ardrossan: The Last Great Estate on the Philadelphia Main Line
Ardrossan: The Last Great Estate on the Philadelphia Main Line
Ardrossan: The Last Great Estate on the Philadelphia Main Line

Ardrossan: The Last Great Estate on the Philadelphia Main Line

New York: Bauer and Dean Publishers, 2017. Hardcover. Bright yellow cloth boards with black lettering and illustration, glossy color illustrated dust jacket, black spine with white and brown lettering, color illustrated end pages, 355 pp, profusely illustrated throughtout in color and bw. VG+/VG+. Item #178578
ISBN: 9780983863250

"Androssan: The Last Great Estate on the Philadelphia Main Line presents a richly detailed history of the baronial splendor of the Philadelphia Main Line estate Androssan and the of the Montgomery family who built it. Real-life counterparts of the Granthams of Downton Abbey, the Montgomerys are best known as the family on which Philip Barry baed his 1939 play, the Philadelphia Story, featuring Katherine Hepburn, who also starred in the later Hollywoodfilm of the same name., The Montgomerys entertained in the grand manner, hosting fox hunts and dinner dances. Guests included diplomat W. Averell Harriman; first lady Edith Roosevelt, Mrs. Montgomery's cousin; and famed vaudevillains the Duncan Sisters. At its height, the magnificent estate encompassed 760 acres of rolling Pennsylvania hills. The Monthgomerys' home, still owned by the family, stands as a glorious reminder of the halcyon days of the Gilded Age. The fifty-room Georgian-style manor house was designed in 1911 by Horace Trumbauer, one of America's foremost classical architects who designed the Elms in Newport, Rhode Island, for E.J. Berwind, and Whitemarsh Hall, Trumbauer's masterpiece built for the Stotesburys outside of Philadephia." --Dust Jacket. Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-345) and index.

OCLC: 982650624

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