ELKINS PARK, Pa. (AP) — Lynnewood Hall, a century-old stunner of a building just outside Philadelphia, is quietly crumbling.
The graceful fountain that welcomed hundreds of well-heeled visitors, President Franklin Roosevelt among them, was dismantled and sold. Its formal French gardens are overgrown with weeds.
Stephen Barron runs a website and Facebook group aiming to drum up interest in Lynnewood Hall's plight. He says the 110-room Gilded Age mansion shouldn't be allowed to fall apart.
Lynnewood Hall is in Elkins Park. Industrial mogul Peter Widener had it built in 1900.
Preservationists say it's hard to save buildings like Lynnewood Hall because they're so big and expensive to maintain. But they say it can be done.
