Three historic fairmount houses, The barnes foundation and lunch at The dandilion, Philadelphia1/2/2015 Brandywine River Museum of Art with lunch at buckley's tavern and Longwood garden's after dark12/3/2014 Ann Wyeth McCoy's dollhouse a hit at Brandywine River Museum.
Our Daytrip began at Westbury House, the 23-room Charles II-style mansion, built in 1906 on 160 acres, by John Shaffer Phipps (1874–1958), heir to a U.S. Steel fortune, for his British wife, Margarita. The glassed-in porch was everyones favorite room. The stunning dining room was take whole from the family house in Manhattan. The painting on the left is a John Singer Sargent commission. The house is filled with exquisite paintings. Even the private parts of the house are just as Mr. and Mrs. Phipps left them at the end of the 1950's.
The Garden experience begins just outside the mansion's glassed-in porch at the top of grand staircase that leads you into carefully designed and planted gardens and garden features. Along the way trippers enjoyed flowers carefully chosen for shape and color. The garden was especially splendid in a perfect late summer/early autumn sunshine. The Garden experience culminates at an elegant lily pond with pagoda.
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