Lynnewood Hall in Elkins Park is thought to be one of the greatest surviving Gilded Age mansions in America, writes Jen Grimble for LoveMoney.

The 480-acre $8 million estate was built between 1897 and 1900 for US tycoon, art collector and Titanic investor Peter Arrell Browne Widener.

Lynnewood Hall had 110 rooms, including an art gallery and a ballroom for 1,000 guests.

Widener filled the home with art and antiquities and hosted hundreds of guests.

He and his family lived there for 15 years until Widener passed away in 1915.

The property went to Peter Widener’s surviving son Joseph after Widener’s eldest son, George Dunton Widener and his son, Harry, perished in the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.

Joseph opened the art gallery to the public between 1915 and 1940, later donating 2,000 pieces of art to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. 

Joseph Widener passed away in 1943 and the property was abandoned.

The property changed hands a few times. It was added to the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia, a list of endangered historic properties in the region.

Today, the Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation has been working with the estate’s current owner to restore the home. 

Read more about the history of Lynnewood Hall in LoveMoney.