Historian, W. Barry Thomson will speak about the 2025 Mansion in May - Wildfair. 

The Mansion is located in Chester and before it was turned into a picturesque and gracious country estate, the property had long been a working farm and the site of a gristmill, sawmill and workshop for the manufacture of millstones. In 1934, Elizabeth and Harry Bowly Hollins III, a New York banker and broker, acquired the property and soon hired the Philadelphia architectural firm of Willing, Sims & Talbutt to design their new country estate.