Biography of Marjorie Post and the Designers Marjorie Merriweather Post is the daughter of C. W. Post (1854-1914), who founded the prepared food industry. She was a noted businesswoman, philanthropist, and collector of art and decorative arts. Her collection of French and Russian art objects, housed at her Washington, D.C., home, “Hillwood,” has been willed to the […]
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Mar-a-Lago Estate, Palm Beach FL Mar-a-Lago is one of America’s most elaborate 20th century mansions. The site, the style, and a large amount of the decor was personally chosen by Marjorie Merriweather Post (then Mrs. Edward F. Hutton), who had the house built. After searching the area south of Worth Avenue for many months with
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Historic Places in Florida The sunny weather in Florida has attracted tourists for decades, and in the prosperity of “the roaring 20s”, many coastal areas were developed for wealthy clients to build castles of entertainment , often used for a scant two or three months a year. Image source: Strangest Celebrity Homes Mar-a-Lago is the estate
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Millford Plantation Greek Revival One of the most important Greek Revival country mansions of South Carolina, “Milford” is a large, pre-Civil War plantation on the “High Hills of the Santee River” near the point where the Wateree and Gongaree Rivers merge – a very rural neighborhood in Pinewood SC. Beautiful and extensive landscaping with mature
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Historic Houses in South Carolina There are twenty-eight buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Sumter County, located in the middle of the state.There are five traditional southern plantations on the list, and Millford Plantation is generally regarded as the finest historic house in the state – and also one of the
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Historic Places in Delaware The state of Delaware was originally part of the “Lower Counties on the Delaware River” established by a land grant from William Penn who needed control of the river that gave access to his town of Philadelphia. With the establishment of Washington D.C. in 1791, the people of Delaware became even more
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Belmont Mansion Fairmount Park West, Philadelphia, PA Completed as a mansion in 1755 from the original cottage on the property, Belmont was the country seat of William Peters, an Englishman who practiced law in Philadelphia. He held various public offices on account of his connections with the William Penn family. An Anglican and son-in-law of
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Sweetbriar 1797 Fairmount Park West, Philadelphia, PA Samuel Breck moved to Philadelphia from Boston in 1792 at the age of twenty-one, after training at a military school in France. Five years later, he commissioned a house on 33 acres along the Schuylkill River received as a gift from his father-in-law. He lived in the house with his
Chamounix Mansion and Carriage House Fairmount Park West, Philadelphia Chamounix is located in a beautiful part of Fairmount Park that once commanded a fine view over the entire Schuylkill Valley from Manayunk to Center City. Later, trees slowly filled-in around the house at the edge of the hillside. The greatest loss was the destruction of
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Hatfield House 1760 Fairmount Park East, Philadelphia, PA Built in 1760 in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia and operated as a boarding school from 1806 to 1824. Mr. William J. Hay bought the building and added the Greek Revival temple at the front, and perhaps the attractive porches over the two entry doors on the sides that
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