Gray Towers Castle

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Gray Towers Castle in Glenside, Pennsylvania , designed by Horace Trumbauer for William Welsh Harrison in 1893
Gray Towers Castle on the current Arcadia University campus (2008)

Gray Towers Castle in Glenside, Pennsylvania is the former residence of William Welsh Harrison, a wealthy US sugar producer and co-owner of the Franklin Sugar Refining Company . The stately magnificent building was built based on Alnwick Castle in Northumberland , England by the architectural office of Horace Trumbauer 1893–1897; The chief designer at this time was Frank Seeburger (until 1909). Gray Towers Castle has 40 rooms on three floors, with the large main hall extending over all floors to the roof. The interior design , in the style of the French Renaissance , was carried out by Trumbauer in collaboration with William Baumgarten & Company from New York.

William Welsh Harrison lived here until his death in 1927. His widow sold Gray Towers Castle including the approximately 60 hectare (138 acre ) property in 1929 to what was then Beaver College, since 2001 Arcadia University . The building now serves, among other things, as an administration building on the university campus. Gray Towers Castle has been listed as a structure on the National Register of Historic Places since February 1980 . The residence has been classified as a National Historic Landmark since February 4, 1985 .

literature

  • Michael C. Kathrens: American Splendor: The Residential Architecture of Horace Trumbauer. Acanthus Press, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-926494-41-1 , pp. 30-36.

Web links

Commons : Gray Towers Castle  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frederick Platt: Horace Trumbauer: A Life in Architecture. In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. CXXV, No. 4, 2001, pp. 315-349, here p. 328 f. and 337 f.
  2. ↑ a b Michael C. Kathrens: American Splendor: The Residential Architecture of Horace Trumbauer. Acanthus Press, New York 2011, pp. 30-32.
  3. ↑ Gray Towers on the National Register of Historic Places , accessed February 12, 2020.
  4. ^ Gray Towers, National Register Number: 80003578. ( October 7, 2012 memento on the Internet Archive ) National Historic Landmarks Program, National Park Service. Retrieved March 1, 2014.
    Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Pennsylvania. National Park Service , accessed February 12, 2020.

Coordinates: 40 ° 5 '27 "  N , 75 ° 9' 53"  W.