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Since I have such an intimate relationship with Annie's bathroom, having sat in the tub and washed my hands in the sink, I thought I would write about Wilson Hall (Daddy Warbuck's Mansion).
Woodrow Wilson Hall, formerly known as the Shadow Lawn mansion, was built in 1929 at a cost of $10.5 million as the private residence of former F.W. Woolworth Co. president Hubert Templeton Parson and his wife Maysie. Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer and his assistant Julian Abele, the first African-American professional architect, designed the mansion in the neoclassical French tradition. The construction incorporates limestone quarried in Bedford, Indiana (also used in the Empire State Building), steel, concrete, and 50 varieties of Italian marble.
It was later purchased by Joseph B. Greenhut, the head of Siegel, Cooper Co., a New York department store. Greenhut loaned the mansion to President Woodrow Wilson during the campaign of 1916 as the presidential summer home. Thereafter it was known as the Summer White House. The current mansion fell under municipal ownership in the Depression, and later served as the site of a private girls' school until the University (then known as Monmouth College) acquired the property in 1956.
In 1978, along with the University's Guggenheim Memorial Library, Wilson Hall was entered in the National Register of Historic Places. In 1985, the U.S. Department of the Interior designated it a National Historic Landmark.
Self-Guided Tour of Wilson Hall
Here's the second floor plan (the room marked SR directly across from the landing was where I had my Eng. Lit. I & II classes. Very fancy for a classroom):
There was a pool in the basement but it was filled in decades ago. The women's bathroom in the basement looks like this (can you imagine what the ones upstairs are like?:
All those doors are the individual stalls. I guess privacy was once more important.
I wanted to find a better picture of the stained glass ceiling in the main hall, but this is the only one I could get:
This is the main staircase - a popular place for engagement and wedding photos:
Monmouth University is my Alma Mater. I have also worked there as a researcher and taught artifact cleaning and documentation during archaeological summer field schools. I am very fond of the place and some of my favorite people work there. It is a private school and expensive - these days close to $50,000 if you live on campus - and if you want to, you can get in with a very snobby crowd. But not everyone is rich or a snob; after all, I was accepted. ;-)
http://www.monmouth.edu/...