Harry Elkins Widener (January 3, 1885 - April 15, 1912)
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was the son of George Dunton Widener (1861-1912) and Eleanor Elkins Widener and the grandson of the extremely wealthy entrepreneur, Peter A. B. Widener (1834-1915).

Along with his father and mother, in April of 1912 Harry Elkins Widener boarded the RMS Titanic at Cherbourg, France bound for New York City. After the ship struck an iceberg, his father placed his mother and her maid in a lifeboat; the pair were eventually rescued by the steamship Carpathia. Harry Elkins Widener and his father both went down with the ship.


Lynnewood Hall is arguably the grandest of the surviving Gilded Age estate houses. Designed by Horace Trumbauer for Philadelphia industrialist P. A. B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall (1898-1901) was built to impress. Prominently sited at the center of its 34-acre property--which originally boasted formal gardens, statuary, fountains and terraces-- the house is in the French Classical style, with a grand foyer, stairway, and French-styled salons, as well as a large, sky-lit wing specifically designed to display Widener¹s art collection.

The Widner mansion is now abandoned. Follow the link to see it:

http://www.preservationalliance.com/news_lynnewood.php