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For this episode of the Legacy Foundation's Mondays with Mundy, Historian Jim Mundy tells the story of Edward Townsend Stotesbury and Whitemarsh Hall. Stotesbury (February 26, 1849 - May 16, 1938) was a Philadelphia native, born to a Quaker family. He went to work for Drexel & Company at 17 years old. Stotesbury was a longtime League member, and a leader at the League - he joined in 1882, served as a Director on the board in 1898, as Treasurer in 1900 and 1901 and then as President in 1903-1905 and again 1922-1923. Stotesbury married his first wife, Frances Berman Butcher, with whom he had three daughters. He later married his second wife, Eva Roberts Cromwell, with whom he built three palatial estates - Whitemarsh Hall outside of Philadelphia; El Mirasol in Palm Beach, Florida; and Wingwood House in Bar Harbor, Maine. Whitemarsh Hall was built in 1921 and designed by Horace Trumbauer, Beaux-Arts architect who also designed the League House. It was arguably the finest example of grand Palladian architecture in the country.
Watch this Mondays with Mundy to learn more.