Philadelphia Magazine has a story featuring a “handsome stone villa serves as a surviving link to the grand estates that once occupied the area.”

Designed by architect Wilson Eyre and completed in 1929, the modest mansion is known as “Villa Medici”. It originally served as home for Dr. Sumner Cross, a prominent Jenkintown physician who would go on to become head of the department of medicine at Abington Hospital after moving in. The home would have only three other owners.

After displaying a gallery of impressive views of the interiors, the article goes on:

One other element that makes this house for sale even more of an estate: It sits next to Abington Friends School’s leafy campus. Another: It’s set well back from the road, tucked behind its neighbors. And another: Besides its own lot, the house comes with a half-interest in a two-acre parcel next to it. The current owner went in with the next-door neighbor on Fairacres Road to buy it and preserve it as open space in perpetuity. This lot serves as a wildlife habitat and an additional buffer from the nearby buildings on Meetinghouse Road.

The sale price is $925,000, which gets you six bedrooms, four and a half baths, spread out on more than 5,800 square feet. Taxes are $19,480 per year.

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