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From the National Park Service in the Northeast

Marie Rust
Regional Director

  

 

The Fourth Annual NHL Photo Contest

During a one day voting period, over 900 National Park Service employees voted for their favorite image from a list of the top regional winners. Grey Towers, the Northeast Regional Winner, was the National Winner by only 11 votes, followed closely by an image of the USS Texas, the Intermountain Regional Winner.

 

National Winner

Grand entrance of Grey Towers on a sunny day

Grey Towers
Glenside, Pennsylvania
Photographed by Anita Washington

The subject of this photograph is the famed castle, designed by Horace Trumbauer, with its parapet walls, towers, gargoyles, buttresses, roman arches, atrium and circular stone banisters, stands as an attractive tourist destination.

Grey Towers was constructed in 1893 for sugar refiner William Welsh Harrison. This American "castle" was based on designs of many European castles and manors that was sought by families of wealth. Since 1929, Grey Towers has been used by Beaver College, now Arcadia University.

For more information on Grey Towers and its visitation hours, please contact Arcadia University at 215.572.2900 or visit their website at www.arcadia.edu.

Last Updated:
September 29, 2003