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McIlhenny Mansion Sold—To Bart Blatstein
1914–16 Rittenhouse Square | Photo: Bradley Maule
Rittenhouse Square’s most maligned manse is off the market.
After a number of near misses, the long vacant McIlhenny mansion has a new owner: Bart Blatstein. But he has no plans of turning it into a Tower Investments property—he plans on living there.
Blatstein, who two months ago sold 60 percent of his holdings at The Piazza and Liberties Walk, has focused his energy on bringing The Provence casino to the former Inquirer Building.
Now he’s got a home within walking distance of his new energy.
With a closing price of $4.2 million negotiated by Howard Casper for U S Spaces, Inc., a real estate brokerage owned by Fred Glick, Blatstein might have gotten himself a bargain on the longtime home of art collector and Philadelphia bon vivant Henry McIlhenny.
(Glick is a Hidden City Philadelphia board member.) Hank McNeil, who purchased the house on the southwest corner of the