Toward the western end of Elkins Park is Pennsylvania Route 611 (Old York Road). SEPTA bus routes 28, 55, 70 and 77 also provide service to Elkins Park. The Jenkintown and Melrose Park stations are also found near the neighborhood of Elkins Park, and are served by the same regional rail lines.
Stern.Įlkins Park is served by SEPTA Regional Rail trains on the Glenside Line, Warminster Line, West Trenton Line and Lansdale/Doylestown Line at the Elkins Park station. House, the former residence of the ice cream magnate which now serves as the Cheltenham Township Municipal building.Įlkins Park is notable for its varied architectural styles (among them: Modern, American colonial and Dutch colonial, Queen Anne, English Cottage and Tudor) its wealth of homes designed by renowned 19th and 20th century architects such as Horace Trumbauer, Louis Kahn and Robert A.M. Today it remains home to many gilded age mansions such as Lynnewood Hall, a 110-room, neoclassical estate, the Elkins Estate presently being restored, and the Henry West Breyer Sr. Roberts, co-founder of Comcast, as well as to the Gimbels family, founders of the department store chain. In the later 20th century it was home to Ralph J. Breyer, Jay Cooke, William Lukens Elkins and Peter A.B. Historically Elkins Park was home to Philadelphia's early 20th century business elite, among them John B. It is four station stops from Center City Philadelphia on Septa Regional Rail. It is split between Cheltenham and Abington Townships in the northern suburbs of Philadelphia, which it borders along Cheltenham Avenue roughly 6 miles (9.7 km) from downtown. Landmark Developers has promised to honor the estate’s history by preserving six of the seven original buildings: Elstowe Manor, Chelten House, a child's playhouse known as the "casino," the stables, a caretaker's cottage, and the "power plant" building.Įlkins Park is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. The renovation plan for the estate’s seven buildings includes a hotel and events center with 110 hotel rooms, five guest cottages, two artist-in-residence apartments, an indoor and outdoor restaurant, a distillery, a wellness center and spa, and a helipad. Catherine de Ricci, left in 2009.Ī current renovation project of $20-25 million by the new owner, Landmark Developers, will create about 120 jobs. The buildings have been largely vacant since the last owners, the Dominican Sisters of St. The most iconic, Elstowe Manor, is among the remaining buildings designed by the famed Gilded Age architect Horace Trumbauer. Built in 1898, those buildings, now known for their Gilded Age designs and opulence, were once the home of wealthy businessman William Elkins.
The estate contains seven buildings, the most notable being Elstowe Manor and Chelten House, mansions designed by Horace Trumbauer. The Elkins Estate is an American 42 acre estate.
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