Heidelberg Hall - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Heidelberg Hall - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Heidelberg Hall, also known as The Weigley Mansion, is located at 1373 Heidelberg Avenue, Schaefferstown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania is a reddish-brown sandstone grand mansion designed in the Second Empire architectural style. It was built from 1876 to 1882, for William M. Weigley, one of Lebanon County’s wealthiest and most influential men during the late nineteenth century, and designed by the noted Philadelphia architect Isaac Harding Hobbs. The architectural firm of Isaac H. Hobbs & Son was known for designing various structures including churches, banks, office buildings and schools using various architectural styles including Gothic Revival, Italian Villa, Renaissance Revival, Chalet, and Greek Revival. Their most publicized work was expressively ornate mansard-roofed suburban and country residences which includes the Weigley Mansion, and was published in Godey’s Lady’s Magazine in April 1875, Scientific American in July 1875, and Isaac Hobbs 1876 publication still in print by Dover Publications.Hobbs, Isaac H., and Son. “Hobbs’s Architecture: Containing Designs and Ground Plans for Villas, Cottages and Other Edifices, Both Suburban and Rural, Adapted to the United States. With rules for Criticism, and Introduction”. J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1873, 2nd Ed. 1876.Kline, Merle. Getting Rich by Marrying the Boss’s Daughter. “Sunday Pennsylvanian”, July 12, 1981, pp. 2-3. Read more on Wikipedia
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