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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1731/00/00 Frog Tavern is built of fieldstone in by Griffith Evans.
1850/00/00 Stone farmhouse is built at 3267 Darby Rd.
1912/00/00 Moravian Pottery and Tile Works Craftsman Designed by Wilson Eyre, Allgates Mansion House is built of New Jersey sandstone for the Lloyds. Interiors feature oak paneling and hand carved fireplaces with hearths of Mercer Tile.
1912/00/00 Wilson Eyre Jr Architect Designed by Wilson Eyre, Allgates Mansion House is built of New Jersey sandstone for the Lloyds. Interiors feature oak paneling and hand carved fireplaces with hearths of Mercer Tile.
1912/00/00 Horatio Gates Lloyd Home Designed by Wilson Eyre, Allgates Mansion House is built of New Jersey sandstone for the Lloyds. Interiors feature oak paneling and hand carved fireplaces with hearths of Mercer Tile.
1921/00/00 John Caspar Wister John Wister visits Allgates, finding the massed INNOCENZA very effective, he noted "it is quite disconcerting to come to a garden of this kind where many of the old varieties are so well grown that they seem fully equal to some of the latest novelties."
1921/00/00 Horace W Sellers Landscape Architect Mary Helen Windgate Lloyd's gardens features a four tier bowl-shaped iris garden roughly 100 feet across where some 250 varieties of irises were planted in different color schemes.
1934/00/00 John Caspar Wister Wister visits Allgates: some of the older varieties which no longer seem worthy, have been put in a special garden on another part of the estate. This has been nicknamed 'the morgue' and is kept as a horrible example of what the old time irises were.
1993/11/14 Horatio Gates Lloyd Died Horatio Gates Lloyd dies of a stroke at his home in Haverford, Pa. He was 92.

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Particulars for Allgates:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Area of Significance Commerce
Area of Significance Education
Criteria Historic Event
Historic Use Hotel
Flower Iris
Area of Significance Landscape Architecture
Criteria Person
Historic Use School
Historic Use Secondary structure
Historic Use Single dwelling



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 79002222
Resource Type:
Owner: Local
Architect: Eyre,William; Sellers,Horace W.
Architectural Style: No style listed
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Commerce, Landscape architecture, Education, Architecture
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering, Person
Period of Significance: 1900-1924, 1850-1874, 1700-1749, 1750-1799
Significant Year: c 1731, 1797, c 1917
Associated People: Lloyd,H. Gates,Sr.
Historic Function: Education, Domestic
Historic Sub-Function: Hotel, Single dwelling, School, Secondary structure
Current Function: Education
Current Sub-Function:

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