Historic
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Radnor Commissioners OK 25-year Lease With Willows Park Preserve to Renovate Historic Mansion
The Radnor Board of Commissioners approved a new 25-year lease on June 24 with the Willows Park Preserve, a nonprofit group that plans to renovate the 100-year-old mansion in the park that’s fallen on hard times, writes Linda Stein for Main Line Media News. Under the new lease, the Willows Park Preserve will seek arboretum…
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From Upper Darby, She Was at Stonewall Inn the Night of the Uprising 50 Years Ago
The Stonewall uprising is a source of inspiration for the modern transgender right movement. Some accounts of the riots say that trans women led the resistance against police. For a long time their stories weren’t well known, but that’s beginning to change, writes Tim McLaughlin for KYW Newsradio. Nance Lomax grew up in Upper Darby.…
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Memoir Takes an Intimate Look Inside Life at Ardrossan Estate
For decades, Janny Scott’s grandmother, Helen Hope Montgomery Scott, and her husband, Edgar, presided over Ardrossan, an 800-acre Villanova estate established by the Montgomery family in 1912, writes Melissa Jacobs for mainlinetoday. It was the Main Line’s Downton Abbey, a 50-room manor laden with art and antiques, where glamorous people lived glamorous lives. Ardrossan was…
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Looking for the Unusual? Check Out the Chadds Ford Sanderson Museum
The Christian Sanderson Museum, 1755 Creek Road in Chadds Ford, offers an unusual and eclectic collection of local historical memorabilia, reports Atlas Obscura. Christian C. Sanderson was a local schoolteacher in Chadds Ford in the early 20th century, and a prolific collector of historical memorabilia, particularly from his hometown. This included many unusual artifacts related…
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Tinicum Rescues Building That Once Helped Immigrants
Like the 19th century immigrants who sweated through the deadly yellow fever epidemic in the wards of the Lazaretto quarantine station, the red-brick hospital on the banks of the Delaware River in Tinicum Township was not expected to survive, writes Inga Saffron for the Philadelphia Inquirer. It was too big to be converted into a…
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Neumann University Student Spends Her Internship in Brinton 1704 House
Deidra Turner, a Neumann University senior majoring in political science, turned her love of history into college credit through an internship at the Brinton 1704 House. “I love history – like a lot,” Turner said. “I was fortunate enough to intern at a museum.” And this museum is nothing short of history. In fact, the…
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It’s Radnor’s First Trolley Tour of History
Lucky residents were transported back in time May 19 aboard a trolley historical tour of Radnor Township, writes Linda Stein for mainlinemedianews.com. Historian Greg Prichard guided 72 people on two tours offered by the Radnor Historical Society, in conjunction with the Radnor Memorial Library, sponsored by Pennsylvania Trust. The trolley visited the neighborhoods of Wayne…
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Brandywine River Museum Antiques Show: Where Antiques and Art Meet
A 48-year tradition returns Memorial Day weekend when the annual Antiques Show opens at the Brandywine River Museum. Fine antiques, including furniture, rugs, porcelain, needlework and much more will be on sale and on display by 26 dealers from the mid-Atlantic and beyond. Proceeds from this fundraising event benefit the Museum Volunteers’ Purchase Fund and…
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Historic Home With Frank Furness Library For Sale in Wallingford.
Lindenshade, a historic home with a library designed by legendary architect Frank Furness, is for sale, writes Clara Lefton for Philadelphia Business Journal. The home, at 26 Furness Lane in Wallingford, has four bedrooms, three baths and whole lot of history. This is from Coldwell Banker’s Jessica Mudrick, the co-listing agent on the property: Lindenshade’s two-story library…
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Fire Destroys Historic Dorm at Closed Sleighton Farm School
A 100-year-old dorm building at the closed Sleighton Farm School near the corner of Valley and Forge roads in Edgmont went up in flames Monday morning, May 6, writes Pete Bannan for the Daily Times. Most of the buildings were built in 1909 and are considered historic. Nobody was injured in the fire which was…
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Alumnae to Mark Centennial of Long-Gone Ellis College
Former students of the closed Ellis College in Newtown Square will gather there this weekend to relive a special time in their lives. The college, known 100 years ago as the Charles E. Ellis College for Fatherless Girls, closed in the late 1970s, writes Joseph N. DiStefano for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Ellis College was started…
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Lansdowne Theater the ‘Last of Its Breed in Philadelphia Area’
The Lansdowne Theater hopes to return to its glory days, even as other grand theaters from Hollywood’s heyday are converted or demolished, according to a Movers & Makers segment at WHYY. The theater is part of a concentrated effort to preserve the rich architectural legacy of the community. That effort has already helped restore the…
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Vietnam POW from Upper Darby Commemorates Anniversary of His Homecoming
U.S. Air Force Capt. Ralph Galati of Upper Darby observed the 46th anniversary of his homecoming as a Vietnam prisoner of war by helping unveil a POW/MIA Chair of Honor at Rothman Institute’s Bryn Mawr office, writes Ronnie Polaneczky for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Capt. Galati, who was held captive for 406 days before his release,…
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One-Armed Grandfather Clock at Delaware County Historical Society Offers Glimpse into the Past
A tall grandfather clock with one arm that is on display at the Delaware County Historical Society gives a glimpse into the days when having accurate time was not as important, according to a report from the Delaware County News Network. The longcase clock was donated to the Society by Mary Mendenhall Brazer in the…
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Investigative Reporter Donates Research on Burglary of FBI Office in Media to Swarthmore College
Investigative reporter Betty Medsger, the first journalist to report on files stolen from an FBI office in Media nearly a half-century ago, has donated her research to Swarthmore College, writes Kevin Tustin for the Daily Times. Medsger, who was a Washington Post reporter at the time, was one of the five people who received copies…
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Photo Project Offers Intimate View of Late Architect Known as the Father of Modern Philadelphia
The Ed Bacon Photo Project, an online catalogue created by the Fisher Fine Arts Library at the University of Pennsylvania, offers an intimate view of the inspirations of the renowned city planner and architect known as the father of modern Philadelphia, writes Michael Bixler for Hidden City Philadelphia. The collection contains more than 5,000 research…
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Remembering Three Mile Island 40 Years After the Meltdown
This week marks four decades since the partial meltdown at Three Mile Island in Dauphin County that caused the worst nuclear accident the nation has ever seen, writes Ron Southwick for the Harrisburg Patriot-News. The events on March 28, 1979 left an indelible mark on Pennsylvania. At the time, 144,000 people evacuated from the area…
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Media Honors Its Late Resident Who Was a Key Figure in Korea’s Fight for Independence
Media Mayor Bob McMahon honored the borough’s Korean connection with a proclamation for the 100th anniversary of the March First Movement and formation of the First Korean Congress, writes Susan Serbin for the Daily Times. “On March 1, 1919, 33 core Korean independence activists signed the Korean Declaration of Independence from Imperial Japan in the…
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