Art Museum
Lynnewood Hall
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Lynnewood Hall is an art museum in Pennsylvania, United States.
About Lynnewood Hall
Lynnewood Hall is a 110-room Neoclassical Revival mansion in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania. It was designed by the architect Horace Trumbauer for the industrialist Peter A. B. Widener and built between 1897 and 1899. Lynnewood Hall is the second largest surviving Gilded Age mansion in the United States and once housed one of the most significant art collections in American history, amassed by Peter and his son Joseph E. Widener and donated to the National Gallery of Art in 1942.
Peter Widener died at Lynnewood Hall at the age of 80 on November 6, 1915, after prolonged poor health. He was predeceased by his elder son George Dunton Widener and grandson Harry Elkins Widener, both of whom died when RMS Titanic sank in 1912.
Lynnewood Hall by the numbers
- Founded
- 1900
Museums near Lynnewood Hall
- Art Museum Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, United States
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- Art Museum The Newark Museum of Art Newark, United States
- Art Museum Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, United States
- Art Museum Whitney Museum of American Art Manhattan, United States
- Art Museum National Academy of Design Manhattan, United States
