Ron Serfass: My dad worked for Stella Elkins, back in 1960. We lived in the big beautiful house next to the SPRING GARDEN Mill. He worked at the MILL where they made the feed for all her cattle, for the cows who were part of her milk processing facilities. She also raised turkeys which were then given to all the farm workers on her 2000 acres estate . It was a delight to receive a turkey for Christmas, and Thanksgiving. We also received bottle of milk everyday from her milk parlors on the estate. We lived at the big big white house right next to the Mill. I still remember when Mrs Tyler's birthday was, she would invite all the kids of her farm workers, for a party, to use the swimming pool, along with all kinds of party hat( mine was a Beanie and Cecil hat with the propeller on top. Funny thing was. She would never be there for her party. So we never met her, and she never knew us. But all her butlers and maids would have the party in her honor. I remember seeing her bathrooms which had gold spigots, and blue marble sinks. Marble floors. Something I never seen before. I know one thing Mrs Tyler did for all her workers. She would give the children there tuition to go to college. But she passed away before my time for college came up. She probably would have liked me. I loved art, and became an artist and published author on my pocelain scuplture work- RON SERFASS: PROCELAIN. THE ELITE OF CERAIMCS. I do know that she really liked my dad. Because he called her Stella. And she liked that. Everyone else called her Mrs Tyler. My dad would tell us kids about when she would visit the mill, to see how the workers all were. She was so down to earth. Mr Rolland Porter was the manager who took care of all the farms on her estate. He was a really nice man. He was really close with my dad and our family. I have a lot of great memories back in the late fifties and early sixties. OH. And I actually went to the Bucks County Community College for art. My email is BUFFEDBOD@hotmail.com
My grandfather, Alfred G England, was a butler for the Tylers, probably beginning sometime after 1935 until after 1940. He lived with his family on the estate but not in the main house. He is listed on page 20 of the 1940 census, and the Tylers are on page 21 along with staff members. My father and two aunts really enjoyed living there. It is where an artist named Joseph Anthony Kloman, who was likely affiliated with Stella, sketched his portrait and possibly painted my father and his two sisters, though I can not definitively make out the signature. So nice to see this!
Ron Serfass: My dad worked for Stella Elkins, back in 1960. We lived in the big beautiful house next to the SPRING GARDEN Mill. He worked at the MILL where they made the feed for all her cattle, for the cows who were part of her milk processing facilities. She also raised turkeys which were then given to all the farm workers on her 2000 acres estate . It was a delight to receive a turkey for Christmas, and Thanksgiving. We also received bottle of milk everyday from her milk parlors on the estate. We lived at the big big white house right next to the Mill. I still remember when Mrs Tyler's birthday was, she would invite all the kids of her farm workers, for a party, to use the swimming pool, along with all kinds of party hat( mine was a Beanie and Cecil hat with the propeller on top. Funny thing was. She would never be there for her party. So we never met her, and she never knew us. But all her butlers and maids would have the party in her honor. I remember seeing her bathrooms which had gold spigots, and blue marble sinks. Marble floors. Something I never seen before. I know one thing Mrs Tyler did for all her workers. She would give the children there tuition to go to college. But she passed away before my time for college came up. She probably would have liked me. I loved art, and became an artist and published author on my pocelain scuplture work- RON SERFASS: PROCELAIN. THE ELITE OF CERAIMCS.
I do know that she really liked my dad. Because he called her Stella. And she liked that. Everyone else called her Mrs Tyler. My dad would tell us kids about when she would visit the mill, to see how the workers all were.
She was so down to earth. Mr Rolland Porter was the manager who took care of all the farms on her estate. He was a really nice man. He was really close with my dad and our family. I have a lot of great memories back in the late fifties and early sixties. OH. And I actually went to the Bucks County Community College for art. My email is BUFFEDBOD@hotmail.com
Wow, amazing, grew up there and took classes at the tyler building at bccc....great story
My grandfather, Alfred G England, was a butler for the Tylers, probably beginning sometime after 1935 until after 1940. He lived with his family on the estate but not in the main house. He is listed on page 20 of the 1940 census, and the Tylers are on page 21 along with staff members. My father and two aunts really enjoyed living there. It is where an artist named Joseph Anthony Kloman, who was likely affiliated with Stella, sketched his portrait and possibly painted my father and his two sisters, though I can not definitively make out the signature. So nice to see this!
Fascinating history!
My great great grandparents... slayyyy
I worked on the landscaping crew in 1966.
Lived across the street and toured it before the college was open
CANT WAIT! PLEASE JOIN US!!
www.bucks.edu/about/foundation/events/tylertastingparty/
FRIDAY! June 5, 2015
6 - 10 p.m.
Tyler Mansion
Newtown, Pennsylvania