Box 1005

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Most of the material, filed by corporate or individual name, consists of invoices and receipts from nurseries in the United States and Europe. Folder titles include business locations noted in brackets. Almost all invoices are itemized, detailing the types of flowers, plants, shrubs and trees used to landscape the various residences. Two landscape contractors particularly well documented include F.D. Moore & Sons and Upper Bank Nurseries. The former serviced Parkgate and Bernice...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Most of the material, filed by corporate or individual name, consists of invoices and receipts from nurseries in the United States and Europe. Folder titles include business locations noted in brackets. Almost all invoices are itemized, detailing the types of flowers, plants, shrubs and trees used to landscape the various residences. Two landscape contractors particularly well documented include F.D. Moore & Sons and Upper Bank Nurseries. The former serviced Parkgate and Bernice...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Topically arranged, this material reflects issues familiar to any homeowner and to those that families such as McIlhenny's could easily afford. While most of the material pertains to McIlhenny's 35-room townhouse on Rittenhouse Square in center city Philadelphia, other family residences are also documented. The family estate, known as Parkgate, was in the Germantown section of the city on the corner of Wayne Avenue and Johnson Street, and showcased the art collection acquired by McIlhenny's...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Topically arranged, this material reflects issues familiar to any homeowner and to those that families such as McIlhenny's could easily afford. While most of the material pertains to McIlhenny's 35-room townhouse on Rittenhouse Square in center city Philadelphia, other family residences are also documented. The family estate, known as Parkgate, was in the Germantown section of the city on the corner of Wayne Avenue and Johnson Street, and showcased the art collection acquired by McIlhenny's...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Having summered there since 1933 when his mother and then he rented the castle, McIlhenny purchased Glenveagh in 1938 from the widow of Harvard art historian A. Kingsley Porter. According to documentation in this collection, McIlhenny purchased, for approximately $25,000, a 19th-century, 23-bedroom castle with some of its contents and other buildings situated on more than 25,000 acres of land in an area not far from the birthplace of his grandfather, John McIlhenny. When not in Ireland,...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Having summered there since 1933 when his mother and then he rented the castle, McIlhenny purchased Glenveagh in 1938 from the widow of Harvard art historian A. Kingsley Porter. According to documentation in this collection, McIlhenny purchased, for approximately $25,000, a 19th-century, 23-bedroom castle with some of its contents and other buildings situated on more than 25,000 acres of land in an area not far from the birthplace of his grandfather, John McIlhenny. When not in Ireland,...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Having summered there since 1933 when his mother and then he rented the castle, McIlhenny purchased Glenveagh in 1938 from the widow of Harvard art historian A. Kingsley Porter. According to documentation in this collection, McIlhenny purchased, for approximately $25,000, a 19th-century, 23-bedroom castle with some of its contents and other buildings situated on more than 25,000 acres of land in an area not far from the birthplace of his grandfather, John McIlhenny. When not in Ireland,...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Having summered there since 1933 when his mother and then he rented the castle, McIlhenny purchased Glenveagh in 1938 from the widow of Harvard art historian A. Kingsley Porter. According to documentation in this collection, McIlhenny purchased, for approximately $25,000, a 19th-century, 23-bedroom castle with some of its contents and other buildings situated on more than 25,000 acres of land in an area not far from the birthplace of his grandfather, John McIlhenny. When not in Ireland,...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Having summered there since 1933 when his mother and then he rented the castle, McIlhenny purchased Glenveagh in 1938 from the widow of Harvard art historian A. Kingsley Porter. According to documentation in this collection, McIlhenny purchased, for approximately $25,000, a 19th-century, 23-bedroom castle with some of its contents and other buildings situated on more than 25,000 acres of land in an area not far from the birthplace of his grandfather, John McIlhenny. When not in Ireland,...