Hardwicke / Somersby

2007.039.001




Object ID#    2007.039.001                

Object Name     Copy Print

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Description    
Small, black and white photo of the front, exterior of the home known as Hardwicke.

Notes    
Original owner -- Herbert Lincoln Clark, b. 1866, d. 1940, age 74. Married Elizabeth C. Bent -- 1907. Harvard graduate -- 1887. Profession -- President Philadelphia Stock Exchange / partner E.W. Clark & Co. 1900- Subsequent owners -- Van Horn Ely Jr. (his daughter married to Clarence Geist of “Launfal”), as of ca. 1940. (Ely may have given the property to his daughter and Geist [info from Brad Emerson]) Owner from 1950 -- Overbrook Golf Club. Plot size 101/113 acres. Original architect - Charles Adams Platt in 1915. Landscape design by Olmsted Bros.