Items in Penshurst taken from Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

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Pictures from English Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans by Anne Hollingsworth Wharton, Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott and Company, MCMXV [1915].

Anne Hollingsworth Wharton was born on 15th December 1845 and died on 29th July 1928, more than 70 years ago, so that this work is out of copyright. She was a descendent of Joseph Wharton and hence related to Thomas Wharton Jr. (1735-1778), the first President of Pennsylvania.

Baronial hall, Penshurst Place

Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

“On the left are the buttery and the kitchens and, separated from the stone passage by a screen of carved oak panels, is the Great Hall, the glory and wonder of the castle, with its open timber roof, [...]

Keywords: interiors, fireplaces, manors, furniture

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2003-03-12

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The Post-Office at Penshurst

Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

Perhaps Tudor or older?

Keywords: houses, gravestones, chimneys

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

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Penshurst Place, Kent

Ancestral Homes of Noted Americans (1915)

“In this fourteenth-century castle lived the great English liberal, Algernon Sidney, the friend and counsellor of William Penn, who had a hand in drawing up the famous “Frame of Government” for the Pr [...]

Keywords: manors, trees

Places shown: Penshurst; Kent; England

Added: 2003-03-12

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