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The property is divided into three spaces—the front, which is occupied by an orchard, the garden, and the service, located on the northeast side and so small that one has to look for it. Simple materials have been used throughout—a yellowish field stone, most of which was obtained from the cellar
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By the early 1930s, Meigs had become prominent enough nationally that he began writing articles for publications in city newspapers. In
November 1930, his article, "Simplicity Is Secret Of Beautiful Home: R. T. McCracken, Germantown, Pa., Has Achieved Striking Results on Limited Ground" which was
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In 1939, Meigs' horse, Red Ned, won by eight lengths at Broad Axe, bringing home the
Harston Cup during the Whitemarsh Valley Hunt; however, tragedy struck when another of his horses, Michaelangelo, fell and broke its back during a jump in the Skippack Plate contest that same day.
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The results of the centralized control in Mr. McCracken's house may be good or bad, in accordance with what anybody chooses to think; but one thing is certain, and that is that everything that was done in and about it carried with it the interest of both the architect and the
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In April 1936, his horse, El Rey Keno, won the first steeplechase race ever held on the grounds of Land Hope, his estate near
Unionville, Pennsylvania. Several thousand spectators attended the private race in which fourteen horses vied for victory.
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and hunt races, as well as horse shows. In
September 1930, he road his horse, Madrigal, in jumping events at the Bryn Mawr Horse Show. In 1934, Meigs' four-year-old brown gelding, Ortheris, won the Twelfth Annual Up-Country Hunter and Pony Show.
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excavation, for the walls; brick chimney and shingle roof, and the interior walls of the three principal rooms downstairs are treated with a cement plaster treated by the masons, with a troweled finish and of a putty color.
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Meigs suffered a cerebral hemorrhage at his estate, The Peak, in Radnor, Pennsylvania, and was transported to the Bryn Mawr
Hospital, where he died on June 9, 1956. He and his wife are buried in the cemetery of
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Belgian blocks, which lend color, texture and tidiness to the whole operation of
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Unionville. In the summer of 1941, they leased Whetstone, a home in Newport, Rhode Island that was owned by Dr. and Mrs. Owen J. Toland.
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near Bony, France and a monument to the United States Army's Twenty-Seventh and Thirtieth Divisions between
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and Mount Kemmel, the latter two of which were commissioned by the
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