Upper House, Episcopal Academy
- Also Known As: John Gilmore Residence
- Address: City Line Ave and Berwick Rd
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
1900/00/00 | William Lightfoot Price | Architect | A mansion (lost) is built for John Odgers Gilmore, designed in 1899 by William Price, whose own home was just across Berwick Road. Demolished in 1973, the "Yorklynne" carriage house remains. | |||
1921/00/00 | Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia opens the Upper School at the former "Yorklynne" estate, bought for $225,000. | |||||
1973/10/00 | John Gilmore's estate is razed by EA. The carriage house remains, the billiard room "hunting scene" is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the carriage house weathervane and a knight stained glass window from the mansion are in the campus center lobby. | |||||
1974/01/00 | Salvaged items, such as furniture, mantles, windows, and the newel post from the grand staircase, are auction in the EA auditorium by Samuel T Freeman, for a total of $11,500. | |||||
2012/02/25 | William Lightfoot Price | Architect | A large trestle table, designed by Will Price and made at Rose Valley for "Yorklynne", sells at the Rago Arts and Auction Center for $237,500 against an estimate of $30,000-40,000. It is a record for work from the Rose Valley Arts and Crafts colony. |
Particulars for Upper House, Episcopal Academy: | |
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Area of Significance | Architecture |
Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
Sight Category | Building |
Architectural Style | French Renaissance Revival |
Owner | Private |
Historic Use | Single dwelling |
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