[2][3] Woodmont was designed in 1891 by Quaker architect William Lightfoot Price in the French Gothic style for Alan Wood, Jr., a steel magnate and former U.S.

[citation needed] The model for Woodmont was the George W. Vanderbilt mansion, Biltmore, in Asheville, North Carolina.

Price had designed a nearby hotel for Vanderbilt, the Kenilworth Inn (1890–91), and was intimately familiar with the then-under-construction chateau.

[citation needed] Woodmont includes tennis courts, a swimming pool, stables, several outbuildings, greenhouses, a stream, and walking paths.

Richard began subdividing the land in 1929, including the sale of 200 acres (810,000 m2) to the Philadelphia Country Club.

On Highland Farm was a stone mansion house, which Mr. Wood beautifully remodeled, and it has been rented to citizens yearly, furnished.

Father Divine, a self-proclaimed God and leader of the movement, was given the estate by a follower, John Devoute, in 1953.

His followers renovated the mansion and placed an American flag prominently in front reflecting Father Divine's patriotism.