page_title: Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania)
section_title: Open house and auction
hierarchical_section_title: Brooke Mansion (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania) / Open house and auction
caption_attribution_description: English: Line for May 20, 2018 Open House.
context_page_description: The Edward Brooke II Mansion, also known as "Brookeholm," is a Queen Anne country house at 301 Washington Street in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania. Designed by architect Frank Furness and completed in 1888, it was Edward Brooke II's wedding present to his bride, Anne Louise Clingan.
  Five years later, Edward II himself designed a major addition to the mansion. Following their parents' deaths, the Brooke children sold the property in the 1940s. The mansion served as a nursing home for thirty years, and recently as a bed and breakfast.
  The property spent fourteen years on and off the real estate market, before being sold at auction on September 29, 2018, for $572,000.
context_section_description: On May 20, 2018, the Xenias family lent their mansion for a one-day open house. The Women's Club of Birdsboro conducted guided tours as a fund-raiser for local community organizations and scholarships. Some 857 people waited in line and paid $10 each to tour the mansion. 
  Horst Auctioneers conducted an on-site sale of the property on September 29, 2018. A couple from Toronto, Canada, Vineet and Twisha Talpade, purchased it for $572,000, and announced that they intend to restore the mansion to its former glory.
caption: Line for the May 20, 2018 open house.
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