Springfield Township Historical Society Whitemarsh Hall collection 1916-1992

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Springfield Township Historical Society Whitemarsh Hall collection 1916-1992

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Whitemarsh Hall, located in Springfield Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, was the home of Eva and Edward Stotesbury. The estate was designed by Horace Trumbauer and constructed from 1916-1920. It was converted to laboratories and briefly used by Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company before it was abandoned and finally demolished in 1980. The Springfield Township Historical Society Whitemarsh Hall collection, 1916-1992, is comprised of photographs, research notes, scholarly articles, and newspaper clippings relating to Whitemarsh Hall.

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Springfield Township Historical Society (Montgomery County, Pa.)

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Stotesbury, Eva Roberts Cromwell

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Trumbauer, Horace, 1869-1938

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Horace Trumbauer Born in the Frankford section of Philadelphia in 1868, Horace Trumbauer left school at the age of fourteen and entered the architectural firm of G. W. and W. D. Hewitt as an "errand boy". He was soon promoted to draftsman. Trumbauer's advancement and acquisition of knowledge enabled him to eventually open his own office in 1890. Trumbauer's first major commission was a mansion in Glenside, Pennsylvania, for sugar baron William Welsh Harrison....

Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company

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Stotesbury, Edward Townsend, 1849-1938

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Pennsalt Chemicals Corporation

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Stotesbery family

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Kitto, Marie C.

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Whitemarsh Hall (Wyndmoor, Pa.).

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Springfield Township Historical Society

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"In 1916, Edward and Eva Stotesbury commissioned [Horace] Trumbauer to design one of his most famous projects: Whitemarsh. Whitemarsh Hall was set on a hill outside Philadelphia in Springfield, Pennsylvania. Stotesbury was a senior partner at the Drexel & Company banking house, an associate of J. P. Morgan, and one of the wealthiest men in America. He met Trumbauer in 1909 when the architect designed an addition for the Union League at Fifteenth and Sansom Streets. "...