Elmhurst is a Tudor Revival residence in Loretto, Pennsylvania, built for the Thaw family on a 130-acre tract and completed in 1902 at an exceptional cost of $150,000. Designed by the Beezer Brothers while their firm was headquartered in Altoona, the project began in 1897 as a 20-room mansion commissioned by William Thaw Sr, whose wealth derived from major railroad investments. The estate later became associated with the wider Thaw family narrative, including Harry K Thaw — husband of Evelyn Nesbit — whose fatal shooting of architect Stanford White became one of the most sensational criminal cases of the early twentieth century. - AsNotedIn