Lynnewood Hall, Neoclassical manor house in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, United States.
Lynnewood Hall is a neoclassical manor house in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, built from limestone with 110 rooms spread across its floors. The interior holds dozens of bedrooms, a large ballroom, a swimming pool, wine cellars, and a dedicated power plant.
Horace Trumbauer designed the house for Peter A. B. Widener, and construction ran from 1897 to 1899, opening with a gala on December 19, 1899 attended by 400 guests. Widener died there on November 6, 1915, after his son George and grandson Harry had gone down with RMS Titanic in 1912. Faith Theological Seminary bought the house in 1952 for $192,000.
From 1915 to 1940, the Widener art collection at Lynnewood Hall was open to the public by appointment between June and October. In 1942, Joseph E. Widener donated more than 2,000 sculptures, paintings, decorative works and porcelains to the National Gallery of Art, including Raphael's Small Cowper Madonna and fourteen Rembrandts.
A foundation acquired the building in 2023 and plans to restore it and open it for visitors. Exact visiting hours will be announced once restoration work is complete.
The ballroom was imported from an Italian palace and could hold around 1,000 guests during events. It remains one of the largest private ballrooms along the eastern coast.
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