. The Ladies' home journal. LEMON HILL 1TOW being used as the residence of the director of the Pennsyl-1 vania Museum of Art, Lemon Hill is the only one of the great1 Park houses not at present open to the public, but its beautiful I terior is there for everyone to enjoy—certainly one of the loveliestin America. From 1770 to 1798, when he left it for debtors prison, itwas the home of Robert Morris, one of the most famous financiers of theRevolution, member of the Continental Congress and signer of the Dec-laration of Independence, who was ruined by speculation in Westernlands. Morris liv
. The Ladies' home journal. LEMON HILL 1TOW being used as the residence of the director of the Pennsyl-1 vania Museum of Art, Lemon Hill is the only one of the great1 Park houses not at present open to the public, but its beautiful I terior is there for everyone to enjoy—certainly one of the loveliestin America. From 1770 to 1798, when he left it for debtors prison, itwas the home of Robert Morris, one of the most famous financiers of theRevolution, member of the Continental Congress and signer of the Dec-laration of Independence, who was ruined by speculation in Westernlands. Morris lived and entertained with lavish elegance, bred bloodedstock on his 300-acre estate and filled his hothouses with what weresaid to be the first lemon trees brought to Philadelphia, giving themansion its name. Washington, Hamilton, Lafayette and Jeffersonwere frequent visitors; the last, when he came, spending much timeinspecting the livestock—and later receiving at Monticello from hispolitical enemy, Morris, a splendid im
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