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A Beautiful
Architectural Treasure
A Beautiful
Architectural Treasure

The Oakbourne Mansion was built by Mr. and Mrs. John Hulme in the late 1800’s as a summer home. In 1893, it was willed to the Philadelphia Protestant Episcopal City Mission to serve as a convalescent home for women. Seventy years later, Westtown Township acquired this gem and its surrounding acres, and transformed it into Oakbourne Park. Learn More »

Wedding Memories
Last A Lifetime…

The Oakbourne Mansion is the perfect place to hold your wedding and reception. The air-conditioned Victorian-era interior of the Mansion beautifully lends itself to an elegant indoor event, seating up to 120 in multiple rooms. The spacious grounds allow for an inspired tented affair for larger gatherings. Use the unique water tower as the backdrop for your real-life fairy tale, or hold your ceremony under a natural cathedral in the mature arboretum. Please note that posted prices are for venue rental only. Catering and any outdoor rentals, such as a tent, are contracted by you. The venue offers:

✓ Wifi
✓ Multiple gathering spaces
✓ Ample off-street parking
✓ Handicap accessibility
✓ Air conditioning
✓ Patio & clock garden
✓ Mansion grounds

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A Unique Venue
Rich in History

In 1882 James C. Smith of Philadelphia purchased 143 acres of land on the west side of S. Concord Road. At the northern end of this property, the south side of today’s Oakbourne Road, he and his wife created a 27-acre park amid the large trees and small stream that occurred there naturally. They built a summer house and pond and enclosed it with a stone wall along the Oakbourne Road boundary.

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History
Of Oakbourne

The highest area of the Smith property had an extensive and choice view of the southeast, overlooking the rolling hills of Westtown and neighboring communities. Here, the previous owners, Mr. and Mrs. John Hulme, had built a handsome Italianate granite farmhouse which they named “Belmont.”

By 1884, the Smiths had enlarged and refurbished the mansion into a High Victorian/Queen Anne Revival style, characterized by the use of multiple materials and textures to produce elaborate and asymmetrical ornamentation. According to the Philadelphia Society of Architectural Historians, the architect is believed to be T. Roney Williamson (1852-1896). The Smiths renamed their renovated home “Oakbourne.”

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