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Languishing Deshong property frustrates Chester

A six-foot-tall barbed-wire fence holds back vagrants from the crumbling Italian Renaissance mansion in Chester. Malt liquor bottles, a car rusted to the color of mud, and old chairs litter the once pristine grounds.

The Deshong Museum on Avenue of the Americas in Chester. The museum once held the art collection of eccentric bachelor Alfred O. Deshong. The works now belong to Widener University.
The Deshong Museum on Avenue of the Americas in Chester. The museum once held the art collection of eccentric bachelor Alfred O. Deshong. The works now belong to Widener University.Read moreBONNIE WELLER / Staff Photographer
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