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Ury House Museum Stephen Lauf

Ury House Museum

1910

Thirty years ago [1910] Ury house was fashionably gay. There were frequent receptions to the four then-debutante daughters of the late Joseph Ury Crawford, one of Pennsylvania Railroad's top engineers and builder of the first railroad in northern Japan.

A constant stream of visitors made the 23 rooms echo with life, and the likenesses in oil of genteel ancestors in raftered ~~Swedes'~~ Hall and elsewhere smiled fondly down upon them all.
Manning Smith, "Sisters in Historic Mansion Hold Off Invaders" (Philadelphia Record, 1940.01.29.

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