A distillery and tasting room will debut in the summer at the 42-acre Elkins Estate in Montgomery County, occupying the stables of a 19th century mansion designed by famed Philadelphia architect Horace Trumbauer.
The estate, one of several Gilded Age properties in Elkins Park, will open Morgan Stillhouse as part of a multiyear renovation of Chelten House. The Tudor-style mansion is one of seven buildings on the estate, which is anchored by the 138-room Elstowe Manor hotel and wedding venue that opened two years ago.
Hospitality company By Landmark, which bought Elkins Estate for a reported $6.5 million in 2019, said the distillery will revive the Stork Club liquor label as an homage to New York City’s renowned Prohibition-era speakeasy. The high-society nightclub, which closed in 1965, was frequented by the likes of Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly, Ernest Hemingway and John F. Kennedy…