Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation blueprints collection 1890-2007

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Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation blueprints collection 1890-2007

http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/pacscl/ead.html?id=PACSCL_HSP_GF02

The Glen Foerd estate was built circa 1850 by Charles Macalester and was later purchased by Robert H. Foerderer, Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives and leather manufacturer. His daughter, art collector Florence Tonner, bequeathed Glen Foerd to the Lutheran Church of America with the caveat that the estate would revert to public ownership if the Lutheran Church was unable to care for it. That happened in 1988, and the Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation was established as a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and restoration of Glen Foerd. There are about 40 unique blueprints, plus some duplicates, in the Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation blueprints collection, 1890-2007. Most depict renovations of the Glen Foerd estate, 1933-2007, but there are also some blueprints of other properties, 1890-1938.

27.0 Cubic feet; (about 40 items)

Glen Foerd on the Delaware

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SNAC Resource ID: 6328198

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Tonner family

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Macalester, Charles, 1798-1873

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Foerderer family

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Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation.

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The Glen Foerd estate was built circa 1850 by Charles Macalester, founder of Torresdale and Financial Adviser to eight United States Presidents. The estate, which Macalester called "Glengarry," was renamed by Robert H. Foerderer (1860-1903) when he purchased it in 1893. Upon her death in 1972 Florence Tonner, daughter of Robert and Caroline Foerderer, bequeathed the Glen Foerd estate to the Lutheran Church of America. She included the caveat, however, that if the Luthera...