The Baldwin School

The Baldwin School is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Montgomery County, dedicated 2000.

Montgomery County · dedicated 2000 · 701 Montgomery Ave., Bryn Mawr, inside school compound on island in front of school

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Originally designed as a summer resort hotel by noted architect Frank Furness, this is his last surviving building of its type. Opened in 1890 as the Bryn Mawr Hotel, it was built in a French Chateau style for the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Baldwin School, the preparatory school for girls founded in 1888, leased the building, 1896; became its owner, 1922. This structure replaced an earlier Bryn Mawr Hotel, built here for the PRR about 1871.

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