Editing Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
[[File:Whitemarsh Hall.jpg|thumb|[[Whitemarsh Hall]] ([[Edward T. Stotesbury]] mansion), (built 1916–21, demolished 1980)]]

[[William Penn]], the founder of [[Pennsylvania]], reserved [[Springfield Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania|Springfield Township]] as one of his family's original manors in the 1680s.

The origin of the name "Wyndmoor" is somewhat obscure. The community was earlier called "Bungtown," "Spring (or Springfield) Village," and "Tedyuscung," after the Native American leader, [[Teedyuscung]], whose statue stands overlooking the [[Wissahickon Creek]] in Valley Green.  "Wyndmoor" is variously said to be an appellation offered by the Heebner family who donated land for the Reading Railroad station,<ref>{{cite book|last=Carter|first= Velma Thorne|title=Penn's Manor of Springfield|url= http://www.springfieldmontco.org/usr/docs/about/penns-manor.pdf|work= Springfield Township Bicentennial Commission|year= 1976 |pages=73–74}}</ref> or originally the name of the estate of Randal Morgan, who made a fortune in oil and purchased property adjacent to the Reading Railroad station about 1900. The name eventually replaced the name "Springfield Village" for the small collection of shops and houses just east of Stenton Avenue, and finally encompassed the entire residential area east of Stenton Avenue.<ref>Contosta, David R. "Suburb in the City: Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, 1850–1990". Ohio State University Press, 1992, p. 203</ref>

Wyndmoor was the site of [[Whitemarsh Hall]], the {{convert|300|acre|km2|adj=on}} estate of banking executive [[Edward T. Stotesbury]]. The estate became a housing development in the late 1940s, and the 147-room mansion was demolished in 1980, but the columns of its portico and pieces of statuary survive in the neighborhoods of Wyndmoor.

The [[Stotesbury Club House]] and [[John Welsh House]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>