Fairmount Mansion

This mansion was designed in 1910 by Philadelphia architects Durhring, Okie, and Ziegler. It has been deemed as a remarkable example of a Tudor style American county house. This was the first private residence to one of the chairmen of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 1950, he sold the property to another revolutionary leader in the arts movement in Philadelphia. That owner then sold it to the School District of Philadelphia in 1954. The school district built a new school next to the mansion but never had a need for the historic structure. Today it sits nearly falling in on itself with preservationists fighting for it to be somehow saved.