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Ebensburg, Pennsylvania

1825 establishments in PennsylvaniaBoroughs in Cambria County, PennsylvaniaCounty seats in PennsylvaniaPopulated places established in 1796
Cambria County Courthouse Ebensburg, PA
Cambria County Courthouse Ebensburg, PA

Ebensburg is a borough and the county seat of Cambria County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is located 25 miles (40 km) west of Altoona and surrounded by Cambria Township. It is situated in the Allegheny Mountains at about 2,140 feet (650 m) above sea level. Ebensburg is located in a rich bituminous coal region. In the past, sawmills, tanneries, wool mills, and a foundry operated there. The number of residents in 1900 was 1,574, and in 1910, 1,978. The population was 3,351 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. Ending in Ebensburg is the Ghost Town Trail, a rail trail established in 1991 on the right-of-way of the former Ebensburg and Black Lick Railroad. Also of note, next to the old Cambria County Jail, is the Veterans Park of Cambria County honoring the men from Cambria County who fought in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Mexican-American War, Civil War, and the Spanish-American War.

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Ebensburg, Pennsylvania
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Cambria County Courthouse Ebensburg, PA
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Ormsby Lodge
Ormsby Lodge

The Ormsby Lodge was the summer home to artist Marjorie Acker Philips and her husband, art collector and Yale graduate Duncan Phillips. The house is a Shingle Style structure, popular from 1880 to 1900 among the upper class who could afford it. While its design replicates a Queen Anne's, it is undoubtedly a shingle style home. It is located in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, built in the 1880s during the towns boom as a summer resort location where a number of influential Pittsburgh socialites -as well as wealthy people of note from elsewhere- built cottages or stayed in lavish hotel resorts. It was built on a 30-acre (12 ha) piece of land on the Belmont Tract which existed in the north-west corner of Ebensburg. One historian described the house in a grand way, writing:The house, for its time and location, was palatial, towering above the measly farmsteads of town with a spire of wood, fanciful windows with elegant woodwork designs, giant French doors lay at the threshold of each room whose ceiling stood far over the heads of residents, a wrap around porch that allowed the Phillips to enjoy the mountain air, and slightly sloping backyard where trees, maples and oaks mainly, sprouted and grew to almost vertigo inducing heights, rivaling and later outgrowing the size of the house.Duncan Phillips often summered in Ebensburg with his family as a young boy who also had a house on the edges of town, so he knew the area well. When he married Marjorie, they spent a number of summers there together. She remembered that she and her husband “always took about thirty paintings to be hung in our house" to form a private seasonal gallery, hand picked from Duncan Phillips vast collection in Washington D.C. Marjorie Philips was inspired by the surrounding countryside and some of her art reflects that in scenes and landscapes. The Phillips employed local men on their 30-acre estate. One John Ross who lived nearby was the manager of the grounds for 30 years, taking the job from two previous manager, Harry Pruner. He worked alongside Richard "Grandpap" Thomas, the grounds gardener. Ross retired in 1965 -just a year before Duncan Phillips' death- but recalled that the family would come in July and leave in September. They ate food prepared by servants and featured dishes heralding ingredients grown in the estates acre-sized garden.