From the Lower Merion Conservancy

The Lower Merion School District proposes to develop middle school playing fields on two abutting historic properties in Villanova. The properties, 1800 Montgomery Avenue and 1835 County Line Road, together equal 13 acres. Once part of the historic Stoneleigh estate, they contain striking buildings, important landscape elements, and mature trees that date to the early 1900s.

The buildings which are part of a unique garden complex, are the design of the distinguished architect, Frank Miles Day. (Day’s portfolio includes among other works, the University Museum and Franklin Field pathetic house at Penn.) The landscape on the field site is the creation of Olmstead Brothers, the most prestigious American design firm of the era.