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Lower Merion schools’ condemnation of storied Main Line estate for ball fields encounters growing resistance
John Bennett kindled the fireside on a new working day in what was when his 20,000 sq. foot brick Tudor Revival manor replete with hefty picket doorways, wainscoted library, and Mercer ground tile. The 72-12 months-aged health practitioner turned professional medical unit entrepreneur recalled how he dropped the house and its 10 acres off County Line Street in Villanova via eminent area in 2018 to make way for middle school athletic fields. The house, regarded as Oakwell, includes approximately 700 trees, some of which are assumed to day again generations. “Everything occurred so swiftly that there was no way to help save it,” Bennett mentioned, as he recounted stories about…