The Campbell Soup Mansion!

The Campbell Soup Mansion!

The Campbell Soup Mansion!

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Linden Hill is the answer to, "Whatever happened to old fashioned glamour and tasteful abundance?" Nestled on over 50 pastoral acres in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, this 14,500-square-foot French Normandy-style stone manse with its deep ocean blue shutters and turretted gatehouse entrance was designed in 1928 by Edmund B. Gilchrist for local stockbroker Rodman Ellison Griscom. After Griscom, the Dorrance family of Campbell Soup Company fame owned and lived in it for more than 50 years. John Thompson Dorrance was a chemist who invented a way to condense soup, which was responsible for the Campbell company jumping leaps and bounds beyond the competition. He bought out the company and was president from 1914 to 1930. Linden Hill was the family home for generations and is currently owned by venture capitalist Robert Burch who has restored and updated it.

Containing exquisite public rooms, eight bedrooms and ten baths, the home is built around a central courtyard-motor court framed by guest houses. There are eight fireplaces, hand-carved English paneling, staff rooms, a 10-car garage, barn, woodshop and a palatial chicken coop, of course. For more information.

Historic Linden Hill estate, former home to the owners of Campbell Soup on Philadelphia’s Main Line, originally priced at $24.5 million, now reduced to $19.5 million.

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