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PHILADELPHIA _ The 18th-century Chester County, Pa., retreat of Albert C. Barnes, the millionaire collector and progenitor of the renowned Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pa., will be transformed into a living-history museum, foundation officials said recently.
As part of the continuing effort to chart a future for the financially troubled foundation, home to one of the finest collections of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings in the world, Barnes director Kimberly Camp said Ker-Feal, the 1775 stone house in Chester Springs that Albert Barnes purchased in 1941, would be developed for use by small tour groups.
No timetable for the project has been ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Barnes retreat to be turned into museum.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)