The Lynnewood Hall Preservation Foundation was recently awarded Preservation Pennsylvania’s 2023 Turning Point Award.

According to the Foundation, the award recognizes the directional change in Lynnewood Hall’s future and was created specifically for the effort to do so.

Pictured: Several board members, staff members, volunteers, and partners in Harrisburg, courtesy of LHPF

In related news, the Foundation announced earlier this week that Site-Facilities Manager Tyler Schumacher, mechanical aficionado Curt Mangel, and Notre Dame summer intern, Sandro Kenkadze, went underground to research the property’s tunnel systems and pipelines.

From their Facebook post:

All of the plumbing, steam, sewage, electric, and drainage systems are buried on the estate and fan out around the buildings hiding an intricate series of tunnels systems. These tunnels are just large enough for pipes to pass through. Every two hundred feet there are manholes which allow service access to these pipelines should something go wrong. We unfortunately have never found plans for any of these systems and subsequently have spent much time within the past few months researching how they worked, digging up new manholes that have been forgotten for decades, and actually venturing underground in pursuit of helpful data!

This has been a very exciting and eye opening venture which we will continue to study. The systems that support Lynnewood Hall, Lynnewood Lodge and the Gatehouse however, and brilliantly designed and extraordinarily well constructed.

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