Loch Aerie, AKA Glen-Loch, AKA Lockwood Mansion was built in 1865 by William E. Lockwood, esq., a Philadelphia businessman, in Chester County Pennsylvania. It was designed by famed architect Addison Hutton with landscape design by Charles Miller, the Fairmount Park landscape designer. The design is described in the 1958 Historic American Buildings Survey as being of Italianate Design with Victorian Gothic details.
I like to see rooms and visualize the memories that took place there, not stare at the corner woodwork for 8 minutes
theeHeisenberg 4 days ago
great upload !
januseski 2 weeks ago
The contrast of beauty and excellence that mansion provides versus the Home Cheapo that now occupies its back yard is striking. With proper maintenance, that home could stand for centuries. The fact that more and more people fail to recognize the difference in substance between a marble-limestone facade, and the simulated brick and flimsy vinyl siding sold inside the Wall Street junk shop next door assures our decline. That home would cost more to re-create than that entire shopping center.
farmboycarl 2 weeks ago
Sad to see it in such disrepair, also, anyone that paints over woodwork like that should be taken out and shot.
1916holton 1 month ago
John, thank you so much for the histoy, taking the tour and posting the video. I also grew up in the area and drive by the property daily. I long to own that property & restore it.......if only the millions were in the bank account. Seeing what this property was in it's younger years, and knowing what it could become at the hands of someone who does not have it's best intentions at hand brought tears to my eyes. Again, many thanks for the tour!
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@serendipity71109 good points there. will be done. whether youd form the missing plaster yourself or hire someone. hte supplies are not even a quarter mile away
yamahonkawazuki 2 months ago
@Whittatude interesting. ive read this elsewhere. first tiem ive heard it mentioned outside of written book form though
yamahonkawazuki 2 months ago
I have to agree with you, the Home Depot is the real travisty. Utterly disrespectful to build it next to this historical, masterpiece. I would hope the local people would find aa use for this wonderful treasure and restore it.
jeanineadele 3 months ago
I want to meet the tramps, more interesting than this house.
ilovyousob 3 months ago
The newel post most likely did not have a light. The piece of ivory was put there when the house was paid for. Lot of houses in the south were done that way. On tours of mansions or even more modest houses, it is always mention that the ivory was put in the newel post when the house was paid for. Anyone who entered the house would know without being told that the house was paid for.
Whittatude 3 months ago