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Laverock, Pennsylvania

Unincorporated community in Pennsylvania, US

Field	Value
name	Laverock
settlement_type	Unincorporated community
Neighborhood of Cheltenham Township
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	United States
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Pennsylvania
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Montgomery
subdivision_type3	Township
subdivision_name3	Cheltenham
pushpin_map	USA Pennsylvania#USA
pushpin_map_caption	Location of Laverock in Pennsylvania
coordinates
established_title	Commissioner
established_date	Art Haywood
elevation_ft	344
population_density_km2	auto
timezone1	Eastern Standard Time
utc_offset1	-5
timezone1_DST	Eastern Daylight Time
utc_offset1_DST	-4
postal_code_type	ZIP Code
postal_code	19038
area_codes	215, 267 and 445

Neighborhood of Cheltenham Township Laverock is a small unincorporated community that is located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States. Part of it is situated in Cheltenham Township and part is located in Springfield Township.

Laverock shares its Zip Code with Glenside, Pennsylvania and is a closed-in suburb of Philadelphia.

History

Mansions erected on large pieces of ground were built in the area during the late-19th and early-20th centuries. Few were built after the 1929 onset of the Great Depression, and the area remained largely undeveloped until after World War II.

Today, the area is a residential-only neighborhood known for its abundance of large black oak trees.

Laverock Farm

Arthur E. Newbold built a Colonial-Revival mansion and estate, "Farleigh," on the north side of Willow Grove Avenue in 1895. His son, Arthur Jr., hired architect Arthur Ingersoll Meigs of Mellor, Meigs & Howe to transform the mansion into a Norman-Revival manor house. Between 1919 and 1925, Meigs created "Laverock Farm" – a working farm housed in a group of exquisitely crafted buildings that deftly mixed the antique and the modern. It was awarded the 1925 Gold Medal for Excellence in Design by the Architectural League of New York.

In an influential review in The New Republic titled "The Architecture of Escape," critic Lewis Mumford denounced "Laverock Farm" and buildings like it as "architectural anaesthesia" and "hocus-pocus":The critical weakness of the romantic architect is that he is employed in creating an environment into which people may escape from a sordid workaday world, whereas the real problem of architecture is to remake the workaday world so that people will not wish to escape from it. "Laverock Farm" lasted barely 30 years, it was demolished in 1956. A development of split-level houses was built on the former estate and as infill around other existing houses.

Notes

References

[http://www.brynmawr.edu/cities/archx/gtp/gtp94on.html "Farleigh,"] {{Webarchive. link. (October 20, 2013 from Bryn Mawr College.)
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James B. Garrison, "Laverock Farm," ''Houses of Philadelphia Chestnut Hill and the Wissahickon Valley, 1890-1930'', Acanthus Press, New York, 2008, pp. 202-07.
Lewis Mumford, "The Architecture of Escape," ''The New Republic'', vol. 43 (August 12, 1925).
[https://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/pj_display.cfm/41439 Newbold Residence], from Philadelphia Architects and Buildings.

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