Tour of COGSLEA/ French Village in Mt. Airy, Philadelphia

Join us for a tour of the Mt. Airy Philadelphia estate known as COGSLEA with Eric Sternfels. Members only, 20 members max, $5.00 cost online payment only.

Event is full. Registration is closed. Details on address of event and parking info to be provided in the e-mail confirmation after registering. 

Visit the former gardens of the once nationally famous Red Rose Girls, a trio of early 20th Century illustrators plus their fourth partner who lovingly tended these gardens designed by the Olmsted firm, the successor of America’s seminal Landscape Architect, Frederick Law Olmsted. We’ll learn some history of these women and their community’s enclave of stone and stucco residences with lushly developed gardens which were depicted in the artists’ illustrations as an idyllic, but achievable country life in America. After hearing stories about the people, we will take a stroll to ‘The French Village,” an adjacent cluster of exquisitely designed homes built in the 1920’s, overlooking Wissahickon parkland. We will learn of the developer’s distinctive approach to social engineering that shaped this far Northwest Philadelphia neighborhood.

https://hiddencityphila.org/2022/02/sacre-bleu-mount-airys-french-village-is-magical/

Program led by Eric Sternfels - Architect, Artist, Garden Designer and local historian who has lectured on the work of Violet Oakley. Eric has made presentations to HPS before including 2020’s “The Art of Plant Placement” at Ned Wolf Park.

We will follow COVID protocol of the event location. Bring a mask, please.