Chestnut Hill

This guide to Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia opens with a hundred and forty horse stalls on a lawn in front of a Gilded Age resort, the Wissahickon Inn, which industrialist Henry Houston opened in 1884 with its own private railroad spur so wealthy Philadelphians could escape the summer city. It follows the Philadelphia Cricket Club he installed across the street, which helped found lawn tennis in America and hosted a national women's championship, and the horse show grandstand he built on St. Martin's Green that drew crowds over ten thousand strong at its peak, an ancestor of the Devon Horse Show still running west of here.