[Property & gates to Estate of Mr. E.T. Stotesbury, Chestnut Hill, Pa.] [graphic] / Horace Trumbauer, architect, 1408 Land Title Bldg., Phila.

Format:

Image

Author/Creator:

Trumbauer, Horace, 1868-1938.

Contributor:

Stotesbury, Edward Townsend, 1849-1938.

Visual Materials Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

mansions--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Gates.

Willow Grove Ave. (Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa.).

Whitemarsh Hall (Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa.).

Local Subjects:

Willow Grove Ave. (Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa.).

Whitemarsh Hall (Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa.).

Physical Description:

5 photomechanical reproductions : blueprints.

Contained In:

Stotesbury, Edward T. Architectural graphics and records of the Estates of Edward T. Stotesbury.

Place of Publication:

1922.

Notes:

Title derived from individual drawing titles.

Work no. 2459, Sheet nos. 2, 4-6, and one unnumbered undated sheet.

Drawing no. 4 is the plot plan, showing the main entrance to the Estate on Willow Grove Ave., with Cheltenham Rd. to the right & Southampton Ave. to the left. The Mansion, Whitemarsh Hall, is set at the end of a long drive, near the rear of the property. Access to the rear of the propety is made from Paper Mill Road. This plan shows 11 numbered gates, plus the main entrance, which is gated. One rear entrance has no gate annotation. Other buildings noted on the plan including "Greystone", the stable, "Cromwell House", and at Gate 4 a house, barn & greenhouse.

An undated drawing "Plan for fencing", also gives gate annotations. 9 gates are annotated in this image, but with the note "9 st[an]d[ing] gates, 1 ent[rance]gate, 2 wicket gates." And a note on the verso sttes "Gates 2 & 5 are 'Wicket gates', i.e. peoply only".

Forms part of: Stotesbury, Edward T. Architectural graphics and records of the Estates of Edward T. Stotesbury.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of Marie Kitto,