Another Historic Property at Risk of Development

It is a continuation of a very sad trend but we have another historic mansion at risk. Glenays, located at 926 Coopertown Road in the Bryn Mawr Section of Radnor Township. Below is information I have extracted from the 1978 application for National Register of Historic Places:

The Glenays house is an Italianate Villa built in three sections; the first section, the main house and small wing, was built in 1859. A second addition was added in the late 19th century and a third addition in 1925. The main section is a compact square which has symmetrical wing projections. Three stories high and three bays wide the walls are stucco over stone. The windows are placed on the facade with the largest windows (6 over 9) at the ground level and smaller windows (6 over 6) on the second story and eyebrow windows (3 over 3) above. The facade arrangement is based on established proportions used in 16th century Italian villas. The main section is covered with a low hipped roof~ center balustrade and two multiple stack chimneys. The main door is central and covered today by a gabled portico although earlier photos show a full length porch . There is also a center rear door.

The second section is also three stories high but lower than the first.
Second and third story windows are the same as on the main section while first story windows are only 6 over 6. There is a large four window bay on the second story.

The third section has two stories and a low hipped roof. A four window bay is located on the second story and directly underneath is a large round-arch doorway.

The last and fourth section is also two stories. It is three bays by two and has three garage doors on the main entrance side of the house.

In the interior there is a careful balance of windows, doorways and spaces in the various rooms. The rooms are large and have high ceilings.

A central hall bisects the first and second stories of the main section. One large room with two fireplaces lies to the left of the main first story hall and two roems to the right. The second story is divided into three rooms to the left and two to the right with a small room at the end of t he hall. There are light rooms on the third floor. A pantry and kitchen are located in one of the three first story rooms.

Interested in linguistics and literature, and a vestryman of Christ Church, Philadelphia, Montgomery was the son-in-law of the celebrated lawyer , Horace Binney and a brother-in-law of the French Comte Olivier de La Rochefoucauld
 grandson of the famous literary traveler, Lanochefoucauld-Liancourt.  His eldest son: William Woodrow Montgomery, was a co-founder of the Merion
Cricket Club whose first meeting was held at Glenays in 1865, another son,
Horace Binney Montgomery, was Master of Fox Hounds of the Radnor Hunt.

The involvement of the Montgomery family in activities both in Philadelphia and
in the country was mirrored by their successors at Glenays. The estate was sold in 1925 to Philadelphia publishing executive and polo player William Ellis Scull (who called the place Leighton House for an ancestral home in Herefordshire, England even as the Montgomerys had named it Glenays for the family place in Scotland).