Allgates

The Allgates is located in Haverford, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The large estate contained 19 buildings. The largest of them is the Mansion House, designed by Wilson Eyre, and completed in 1912. The Frog Tavern was built in 1731, and the Federal School was built in 1797. The complex of buildings was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 15, 1979, and the Federal School was listed separately in 1971. The estate was built for financier Horatio Gates Lloyd, simultaneously partner in Drexel and Co. and J.P. Morgan and Co. and President of the Commercial Trust Co. of Philadelphia, and his wife Mary Helen Wingate Lloyd.[2]

Allgates
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Allgates, November 2009
Location	Coopertown Rd., Haverford, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	39°59′54″N 75°19′36″W
Area	26.6 acres (10.8 ha)
Built	1731
Architect	Eyre, Wilson; Sellers, Horace W.
NRHP reference No.	79002222[1]
Added to NRHP	May 15, 1979

The area was landscaped the Olmsted Brothers (1911-1915); Additions to the garden were made by Ferrucio Vitale. The gardens did not survive.

Since Allgates listing on the NRHP, the estate has been developed with several new large residences. Both the Mansion House and the Federal School remain, however.

Hand colored lantern slides, 1919, by Frances Benjamin Johnston

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See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Delaware County, Pennsylvania

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Howard Greenburg and Margaret Johnson (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Allgates" (PDF). Retrieved 2012-01-02.