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Title: Main Line’s ‘Olinda’ was home to racing entrepreneur McDowell
Author: O’Loughlin, Kathy
Source: Main Line Times
Date: 4/4/2002
Folder/Item #: Architecture (2) from 1992; 0
Notes:
Abstract: Mansion was built in 1850s as a home for one of Blair McClenaghan’s daughters. Next owned by Edward S. Sayres, Sr. then William L. McDowell who moved in with his wife Mary Aboott and six children in 1872. Brief history of the owners and photo of the man