Peter Arrell Browne Widener
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Peter Arrell Browne Widener was an American businessman, art collector, and patriarch of the Widener family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Peter Arrell Browne Widener
Peter Widener Mausoleum in Laurel Hill Cemetery
Peter Widener Mansion, Broad St. & Girard Ave., Philadelphia, PA (1887), Willis G. Hale, architect
The Small Cowper Madonna (c.1505) by Raphael
Laurel Hill Cemetery
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Laurel Hill Cemetery, also called Laurel Hill East to distinguish it from the affiliated West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, is a historic rural cemetery in the East Falls neighborhood of Philadelphia. Founded in 1836, it was the second major rural cemetery in the United States after Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts.
Laurel Hill Cemetery Gatehouse in 1972
The Yellow Fever Memorial was built in 1855 to honor Philadelphia's "Doctors, Druggists and Nurses" who helped fight the epidemic in Portsmouth, Virginia
The cemetery was designed by John Notman with strings of terraces that descend to the Schuylkill River
"The Silent Sentry" was stolen from Mount Moriah Cemetery in 1970 but was recovered and rededicated in Laurel Hill in 2013.