Which begs the question: Is it cursed? Probably not, but you never know!įrom the outside, this 11,000 square foot Memphis, Tennesse mock castle doesn't look like it boasts a history too different from that of Elda. Little is known about the home's history between then and now, but, several different owners tried to revive the home to its former glory before falling on hard times themselves.

So perhaps the stately home has a mind of its own and is simply determined to fulfill its fate as a place of decay. Strangely enough, part of it was designed to look like the ruins of a Medieval castle. Left alone, Elda soon fell into disrepair. moved with her eldest daughter until her own death in 1955.

Right after it was completed in 1928, a series of tragedies struck the family: First, their daughter Lucy died in an accident at her dad's factory, and then the patriarch himself passed away from rheumatic fever in the home, at which point Lucy Sr. Abercrombie's wife, Lucy Abbot Cate, was the architect behind the home, and she decided to name it after their four children, Elizabeth, Lucy, David, and Abbott. Abercrombie, the co-founder of Abercrombie & Fitch, this Ossining, New York mansion sits on a whopping 50 acres. It went into foreclosure in 2006 when the McIntire organization couldn't pay the mortgage.īuilt in the 1920s by David T. By 1945, Widener's estate was valued at $98,368,058!Ī developer later tried to sell Lynnewood, but the only taker was a fundamentalist preacher, Carl McIntire, who bought the home in 1952 for $192,000. His son Joseph inherited the mansion and lived there until he died in 1943 and no surviving members of his family, even his children, wanted to take on the responsibility of the place. He had three sons (one of whom died on the Titanic) and lived in the house until he passed in 1915. It was built in 1900 for Peter Arrell Brown Widener, a businessman who became wealthy from investing in public transit and meat packing, among other things. Unsurprisingly, it's from the Gilded Age. It features a whopping 110 rooms (like a ballroom that can accommodate 1,000 guests) outfitted in neoclassical architecture, and it once held the most important private art collection of European masterpieces in the country. Indeed, it's the twelfth largest historic house in the U.S. To say Lynnewood Hall is massive would be a massive understatement.

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