Daily News | Seeing inside Lynnewood Hall might be the most expensive house tour in Philly history
Elkins Park’s Lynnewood Hall has a reputation that extends well beyond the quiet Philadelphia suburb. Numerous YouTube videos of 110-room mansion have
, and lovers of Gilded Age history and old homes have obsessed about it on Facebook and other forums.. But they’re going to cost quite a bit.for $9 million, is offering tours to raise money for asbestos remediation — the first step in making the house accessible to the public one day. No surprise, ridding a 100,000-square-foot building of asbestos is really expensive. The project will cost $1.
For $5,000 a person, the extended-access tour — complete with a souvenir photo and hard hat — takes you everywhere that’s safe to go in four hours. The $15,000 option, for well-off shutterbugs, covers four people and allows three hours for arranging and taking shots at leisure. Bump it up to $50,000 and you can bring up to 12 people on your six-hour tour, which also includes souvenirs and lunch with the nonprofit’s staff.The cost of admission may strike you as absurdly high or somehow befitting.
, roughly $295 million in today’s currency. The nonprofit’s staffers, anticipating disappointment, offer a note of acknowledgment and solace for the future.. “Our goal is to raise the money needed to get remediation done as soon as we possibly can to make a variety of other opportunities to experience Lynnewood Hall available to the public.”
Donations of any amount are appreciated, they added. They had raised $3,020 as of mid-morning on the campaign’s launch day.
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