MAIN LINE ESTATE 

PHILADELPHIA \ PENNSYLVANIA

close-up of a restored circular water feature framed by a circular border of liriope.

MAIN LINE ESTATE

PHILADELPHIA \ PENNSYLVANIA

  • The house and estate, formerly known as “Inwood”, is a mansion in the historical region of suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania known as The Main Line. Built in 1921 by the architectural firm of Seeburger & Rabinhold, the property today is comprised of 13 acres. The property is a fine example of an estate that gave the Main Line its distinctive character and reputation; open space and a collection of magnificent trees, but it lacked landscape spaces and gardens for today’s modern outdoor living. The current client and fourth owner of the property successfully completed a sensitive renovation to the house and then engaged the landscape design firm to oversee a new landscape and herald in a new era in the estate’s history.

    RECOGNITION

    Palladio Award: Exterior Spaces \ 2018

    Stanford White Award: Landscape Design \ 2018

    Trumbauer Award: Landscape Design \ 2018

    COLLABORATORS

    Victoria Hagan Interiors

    Terren Landscapes

    Pinemar Inc.

    PHOTOGRAPHY

    Neil Landino

MAIN LINE ESTATE

PHILADELPHIA \ PENNSYLVANIA

The house and estate, formerly known as “Inwood”, is a mansion in the historical region of suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania known as The Main Line. Built in 1921 by the architectural firm of Seeburger & Rabinhold, the property today is comprised of 13 acres. The property is a fine example of an estate that gave the Main Line its distinctive character and reputation; open space and a collection of magnificent trees, but it lacked landscape spaces and gardens for today’s modern outdoor living. The current client and fourth owner of the property successfully completed a sensitive renovation to the house and then engaged the landscape design firm to oversee a new landscape and herald in a new era in the estate’s history.

 
detail of the steps down into the infinity pool in the pool garden framed by sheared hornbeam hedges and ornamental grasses.
 
in the center of a formal garden with cubed aerial hedges of Linden on both sides a sculpture by Antony Gormley is centrally placed. a hornbeam hedge and perennials seperate the pool and formal gardens.
 
close-up of Speedwell.
close-up of Nicotiana.
close-up of Lysimachia.
close-up of liriope flower.
 
close-up of a 'Hydra' by David Harber in an antique tan bronze finish.
a sculpture by Antony Gormly resembles a man made with varying sizes of Corten steel blocks.
 
view of the sculpture garden framed by sheared hedges of boxwood and groupings of boxwood globes scattered throught features 'Half Mantle' by David Harber, 'Blue Apple' by Lisa Papon and 'El Vigia', by Rodrigo de la Sierra.
 
view of the entry courtyard framed by sheared aerial hedges of hornbeam, boxwood parterres with layers of yew hedges and Nicotiana and circular restored water feature centrally located.
simple site plan of the entry courtyard.
 
view of the front entrance of the home flanked by planters by Artelier Vierkant in the background, the restored circular water feature centered and a bluestone pathway to the woodlands in the foreground.
side view of the stairs coming from the rear terrace down into the formal garden flanked by perennial borders, boxwood globes and parterres of Nicotiana and cubed aerial hedges of Linden.
 
broad symmetrical view of the infinity swimming pool looking down from one end to the other end where a stone wall with boxwood parterres seperate the pool garden from the woodlands.