Ron at PopFi found a story about the sad state of Philadelphia’s Lynnewood Hall.  Once a beautiful, majestic mansion, today it has fallen into a state of disrepair.

Originally it was a 70,000 square-foot, 110-room mansion sitting on 480 acres (220 of which were working farmland to feed the family).  Sold by the Widener family in 1956, Lynnewood Hall is now a shell of its former self, picked clean by various purchasing religious groups to raise funds.  What was once the lap of luxury is now as empty and sad as Detroit.

I like Ron’s plan of restoring beautiful old mansions once winning a “super-epic” lottery.  I can paint, Ron.  And I like it.