Glessner House

Photo Friday
This week’s Photo Friday shows a detail from the Steinway & Sons piano located in the parlor. The Model C semi-concert grand piano was the second largest size produced by Steinway. Francis Bacon of A. H. Davenport & Co. designed the mahogany case, which features inlaid wood and mother-of-pearl, as seen in this image of the center of the fallboard, located over the keyboard.

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Memorial Day:

In honor of Memorial Day, we present this Revolutionary War marker which is located on the grave of William Wood (1736-1806), one of Frances Macbeth Glessner’s great-grandfathers. Private Wood served in Captain Jacob Cisna’s Company in the 2nd Battalion from Washington County, Pennsylvania. He is buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery in Whiteley Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, beside his wife Margaret who died in 1846 at the age of 101.

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