Details
Contributor Simpson, George, architect.
Title "The Kenwood," Chestnut Hill, Pa. [graphic].
Date ca. 1912
Physical Description 1 photographic print (postcard): gelatin silver on postcard mount; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Depicts a car parked in front of The Kenwood, a mental sanatorium in Chestnut Hill. The building in the foreground was constructed in 1884 after designs by George Simpson. This newer building sits adjacent to the original house on the property (left), built circa 1860 as a private residence, then altered to The Eldon Hotel, one of three resort hotels in Chestnut Hill. The hotel occupied the property until 1910, when it was converted to the Kenwood mental sanatorium.
Notes Real photo. Divided back. Post marked 1912.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Hospitals -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Sanatoriums -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Bethlehem Pike (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 186.
Genre Photographic postcards -- 1910-1920.
Associated name Simpson, George, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| LCP postcards - Hospitals, asylums and homes - [P.9933.11]
Accession number P.9933.11