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CONTENTS VOLUME 26 ISSUE NO. 9 SEPTEMBER 2021
DEPARTMENTS ALSO IN
6 FOREWORD
THIS ISSUE
30 DIVERSIONS
8 COMING UP + Glorious fall getaways.
WEB EXTRAS By Marilyn Odesser-Torpey
10 SCENE 68 SALONS & SPAS
Best of the Main Line DIRECTORY
Finale Night, Schwartz
Education Center
Unveiling. 71 EPICURE
Media’s iconic Towne
House is reshaped into
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PLUS: Stove & Tap comes
FRONTLINE to West Chester.
13 HORSE AND HOME
A local design firm rides
44 77 RESTAURANTS
By Ed Williams
the crest of a historic The best places to eat
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By Melissa Jacobs
FEATURES 80 LAST LOOK
and drink in our region.
18 DEAD FLOWERS 36 FALL EDUCATION GUIDE Endless summer.
From the archives, Local colleges and universities navigate the new normal after By Ed Williams
our 2014 story on the COVID-19. PLUS: The Archdiocese fights to stay relevent,
demise of Waterloo and our directory of independent, parochial and alternative
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Archer & Buchanan Architecture’s
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INNOVATION
hen Peter Archer and began in 2020. With real estate
HORSE
Richard Buchanan at a premium, people are buying
debuted their land and renovating the homes on
architectural firm it. It’s a similar situation to what
25 years ago, they happened more than two decades
AND HOME initially had a tough
time landing local clients. “It took a
whole year to get our first house on
the Main Line,” Archer recalls. “We
called it our flagship house.”
ago when the dissolution of King
Ranch aggregated about 8,400 acres
of land that became available for
development—or redevelopment.
Homes, barns and other buildings
As it turns out, their timing existed on many properties, but
was perfect. “At the end of the they’d fallen into disrepair or were
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THE CREST OF CHESTER coming into existence and people modern living.
were looking online for available And the standard of living was
COUNTY’S HISTORIC spaces,” says Buchanan. “They were changing. Technology and modern
RENOVATION WAVE. also moving out of the city and into conveniences were upgrading the
Chester County’s horse country and way people lived. Homeowners
the Main Line.” didn’t just want central air—they
BY MELISSA JACOBS A new wave of urban flight wanted smart-home systems. At
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“
the same time, they wanted to keep the estates with staff quarters for servants.
historic, sometimes rustic aesthetic that’s so In both situations, houses typically had
closely identified with Chester County. “WE’RE NOT DOING an upstairs, a downstairs, a back of the
Those twin goals may seem house and a front of the house, with two
oppositional—but accomplishing is more REPRODUCTIONS. WE kitchens, two parlors and two entryways.
a matter of renovation than preservation. UTILIZE THE BEAUTY, Today, those homes are generally occupied
“We’re not doing reproductions,” by one family. So Archer and Buchanan
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character and detail of these 18th-century OF THESE 18TH-CENTURY larger one and add more bathrooms. Two
houses to create homes that people can kitchens become one, albeit with plenty of
live in now.”
HOUSES TO CREATE room for modern appliances.
Back in the 1990s, Comcast founder HOMES THAT PEOPLE Not surprisingly, technology plays a
Ralph Roberts bought one of the initial CAN LIVE IN NOW.” huge role in the reallocation of space.
King Ranch tracts and renovated its Making room for a flat-screen TV isn’t
buildings using the region’s 1700s —PETER BUCHANAN tough, though creating laundry facilities
architectural language. That set the tone can be. It’s the same for the plumbing and
for other property owners, sparking a electricity required for modern master
movement that benefited the growth of Price was a giant in the region’s Arts bathrooms. The heating and cooling
Archer and Buchanan’s firm. “We had and Crafts movement. That’s the visual elements alone are mind boggling. “We
the benefit of being in the right place and language Buchanan and Archer learned to spend a lot of time thinking about
time,” says Buchanan. “Our mission is to speak. “Having those details gives us tools environmental enclosures for managing
use the visual language of Chester County to make an older house livable for someone heat flow and humidity gradients,” Archer
responsibly and accurately to interpret for in 2021,” Buchanan says. “It’s not strictly admits. “A 21st-century home is bristling
modern living.” preservation but adaptation.” with technology.”
That visual language is unique to this One example: In the 18th century, And COVID-19 ushered in the “away
region, setting it apart from, say, an many Brandywine Valley families lived in spaces” residential design trend—places
Arizona ranch or a Vermont farm. Here, multi-generational farmhouses with rooms where people can get away from each
local architects left their unique imprint. to accommodate every family member another. Archer and Buchanan are fielding
Richardson Brognard Okie specialized in who worked the land. At the same time, requests for kids’ play spaces separate from
the Colonial Revival style, while William many Main Line families lived in large family rooms and master continued on page 21
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Susan LeBoutillier at LeBeau
Gardens in 2014.
DEAD FLOWERS
THE FAMILY FRICTION BEHIND THE SELF-INFLICTED
DEMISE OF WATERLOO GARDENS.
BY J.F. PIRRO
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This ature once filled Susan For both, the family business was
piece initially ran in LeBoutillier’s days. Every spring Waterloo Gardens, a Main Line mainstay
the April 2014 issue of and summer, she could walk into that employed hundreds over seven
Main Line Today and any number of greenhouses and decades, until the company’s deflowering.
quickly became one of revel in the beauty, bundling it Its last location in Exton closed in the
the magazine’s most into bouquets at will. “I like dirt, summer of 2013, and the much-loved
well-read stories. The same month it was flowers, the smells,” says LeBoutillier. “It Devon store was shuttered the year
published, Main Line Gardens in Malvern brings me right back.” before. Financial problems had begun to
acquired the Waterloo Gardens brand. The It was an idyllic childhood not unlike mount five years earlier, when an upstart
original location was eventually absorbed that of her eventual sister-in-law, Lucy Warminster branch became a fast-and-
into Devon Yard, and its Exton address now LeBoutillier, who worked summers at furious $10 million failure. It’s now
belongs to a 3,555-square-foot home. Susan a Connecticut flower farm. Her family rightfully regarded as “the big mistake.”
J A R E D C A S TA L D I
LeBoutillier continues to carry on the family decorated nine Christmas trees at home. That same year, Waterloo opened
legacy at LeBeau Gardens in Downingtown. “It’s a bug in you,” says Lucy. “I just another garden center in Wilmington,
Her oldest sister, Linda Anne, passed way in love being in nature. It centers me for Del. Its fate wasn’t much different,
February of this year. everything I do.” as the recession and the collapse of
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“
suburban home building cut demand for now, I’ve heard of people going through
landscaping services, flowers, ornamental Waterloo withdraw.”
trees, fountains and patio furniture. SUSAN LEBOUTILLIER The LeBoutilliers had their own
The Warminster store closed in 2008. Christmas traditions. Susan remembers
Wilmington followed in 2011. Zelinda OFTEN DREAMS ABOUT the family in the growing fields, choosing
(Linda) LeBoutillier died that same year. HER FATHER, WHO and cutting a tree, then bringing it to the
She owned and operated the company house. Her parents built the home on the
with her husband, Bo, who’d passed away PASSED AWAY IN 50-acre Exton property after they acquired
a decade earlier. Their only son, Roberts 2001. SHE WONDERS it in 1959. “Every year, we had a theme,”
(Bobby) LeBoutillier, became Waterloo Susan recalls. “We’d all go into the store
Gardens’ CEO and president. He would
WHAT HE’D SAY NOW, and pick ornaments, but we never took
be its last. THOUGH NONE OF IT the price tags off. The day after Christmas,
Waterloo quickly went to pot—and not WOULD OFFER ANY we’d take them back to the store. Dad
the clay variety Bobby’s sister, Susan, spins loved Christmas.”
as a stress release once a week at the Wayne CONSOLATION. Susan often dreams about her father,
Art Center. One of those therapeutic who lost a battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease
pots now holds M&M’s. It sits on a long in 2001. She wonders what he’d say
farm table upstairs at LeBeau Gardens in loose ends before the holidays. They have now, though none of it would offer any
Downingtown. Now 54, Susan has moved a mortgage on a farmhouse in Exton, consolation. “He’d still be proud, but also
on. The new business is named after her and they need jobs. “There was a vacuum intensely disappointed that what he built
father—though it’s a different spelling. hooked up to the safe that went to the is gone,” she says. “If there’s anything I
One of Bobby’s four sisters, Susan was bank,” says Bobby. could’ve done to change it—anything—
once president of Waterloo’s landscaping Waterloo’s purpose was to attract I certainly would have. It still bothers me
division, before she struck out on her own families. On Black Friday, the lights on the that maybe I could’ve done something.
in 2012. Since Waterloo withered, her salvos shrubs and trees in the Devon and Exton But I don’t know what that something
are her new ventures. She unwinds with her locations flickered on, and the holidays could’ve been.”
potting and her putting—nine holes a week began. Bobby was Santa at times. “There Of all the LeBoutillier children, only
at Downingtown Country Club. were so many traditions. In 10 years, Bobby and Susan stayed with Waterloo
Bobby, 59, and his wife, Lucy, were probably no one will remember them,” during its final years. Rene left Waterloo
still wrapping up Waterloo’s financial laments his sister, Susan. “But, right 20 years ago and now resides in Missouri.
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“
Elise, the youngest, lives in Collegeville. were not to be educated, that women
She departed after Bo died, and now runs weren’t to be important. My education
Freeland Market in the Pottstown Farmers WATERLOO GARDENS was threatening to some, and I was left
Market. First-born Linda Anne lives in completely out of any decision making.”
Downingtown and is writing a book about GREW INTO A There’s little doubt that Susan was closer
the history of Waterloo. $34-MILLION-A-YEAR to her father, a French-English Quaker from
Before Bo died, Bobby and Susan were Wayne who was part of an entrepreneurial
each named president of their respective COMPANY THAT family that owned dry-goods businesses in
division—he the garden centers, and she EMPLOYED 400 Philadelphia, Cincinnati and New York. He
the landscape company. Two years before was “one tough cookie,” she says. “But I’d
her death, however, their mother began
PEOPLE. EVENTUALLY, work for Dad again.”
shifting more authority to Bobby, who was THOUGH, IT BECAME Working for Bobby, however, was
told to oversee Susan. “It was oversight A STRUGGLE NOT TO different. They had conflicting ideas
she didn’t appreciate,” Bobby admits. about how to best run Waterloo Gardens.
“Previously, she was on her own. Dad LIVE IN THE PAST. Bobby claims that Susan wouldn’t extend
paid little attention to [the landscaping Waterloo’s 1 percent preferred retail
division]. Mom didn’t pay attention to it.” customer discount to landscaping clients;
After Linda died late in 2011, her will operations safe and efficient. He made he argued for consistency. Susan says the 1
made Bobby the general partner, giving machines for specific jobs. He met Lucy percent is merely a sales incentive that leads
him majority control (though only outside at Waterloo. She’d interviewed with Linda to data the landscaping side already had.
executors and the bank ever played that out of college, after her family moved to a Bobby is convinced it would’ve helped with
role). Financially, each daughter was given Berwyn farm. Lucy spent her time in the client retention.
a different percentage of the estate—less for gift, flower and Christmas departments, Regardless, Waterloo Gardens grew
Linda Anne and Elise, who’d already taken and she didn’t initially get along with her into a $34-million-a-year company that
company buyouts. future husband. “I was into the magic of it, employed 400 people. At one point, it was
Susan finished out the holiday season not operations,” she says. doing $6 million in patio furniture alone.
in 2011. Then, in January, Bobby ordered The LeBoutilliers weren’t really getting Eventually, though, it became a struggle
a seasonal layoff. Susan could’ve returned along, either. Every member of the family not to live in the past. Eight landscaping
in March, when better weather brought moved to the beat of a different drummer. crews shrunk to three. In the end, there
business, but she ventured out on her own Away from Waterloo, the family seemed were just 70 employees. “I got tired of
instead, refusing to play a victim’s role. “I viable. Linda even took them all to Italy making the speech,” Bobby admits.
was a thorn in his side,” she admits. “I was after Bo died. Growing up, Bobby says, A turning point came in September 2008,
difficult, but my life was turned upside his parents would never acknowledge any when the gift shop outsold the nursery. “All
down. I created a lot of profit for the problems, figuring it would make them of a sudden, it wasn’t what we wanted but
company over the years.” disappear. Of course, that only made what the buyers wanted,” Lucy says.
But the resentment ran deeper. Susan’s things worse. As the economy constricted, jewelry and
J
grandfather, James Paolini, founded linen sales increased, while landscaping
Waterloo Gardens with his wife, Anna, in ames Paolini’s first sign read, “Waterloo decreased. “That was a radical change,”
1942 on two acres in Devon. He always said Gardens, Grower of Rare Plants.” He’d says Lucy.
Bobby would get the company. “He rubbed learned the industry in Italy, north Longtime customers were coming in,
that in the girls’ faces,” remembers Bobby. of Rome, traveling by wagon with a buying a gift-shop card, and that was it.
“They hated me for him saying that.” blind man who sold nursery stock. He “We never thought the Main Line would
Susan often tried to talk to her mother collected the money and made sure the stop buying,” says Lucy. “These were
about the business, but Linda wouldn’t right customers received the right plants. people who at one time didn’t even look at
reciprocate. “I stopped trying,” she says. Paolini started the company in Devon and price tags.”
“It was always meant to be his. Sure, the later opened the Exton location. Linda and In the end, Waterloo would have
economy went bad. But when it does, you Bo grew it, purchasing it from her parents 75-percent-off sales, and buyers would still
have to be better and develop a strategy in 1972. want a better price. “It became a question
that works. Waterloo could’ve survived.” Linda was an only child, so there was of what to sell and who to be,” says Lucy.
When Susan started LeBeau, she took no question about who’d control Waterloo Meanwhile, there was a shift in the do-
Waterloo clients with her. An hour before then. Bo was partial to his daughters. it-yourself landscaping ideology to a more
Linda died, the estate lawyer made it Bobby was largely a worker bee. Linda contractor-driven industry. “Now, it’s do-it-
clear—verbally, with Bobby present—that balanced the scales, elevating her son. “It for-me,” says Bobby.
Linda wanted Susan to have that customer was easy to love Mom,” says Bobby. No doubt, the Warminster expansion
list, some vehicles and equipment, and any Bobby contends that his mother felt her was ill timed. Purchased on Aug. 1, 2007,
employees, so she could get started on her daughters were trying to control her. Susan as a shell of a former Pathmark, Waterloo
own. In that arrangement, Bobby would believes it may have been the other way renovated and opened Nov. 1, 2007. It was
acquire the retail stores and the properties. around. At 50, she completed her executive closed by Dec. 31, 2008. “We were already
But it was never in writing, and the bank MBA in 2009 at Temple University, having trouble in Devon and Exton, so
wasn’t giving anything away. figuring it would help—maybe even save— we were banking on new clientele,” Bobby
Bobby grew up in Waterloo’s fields, Waterloo. But she disobeyed her mother says of a move that was supposed to fix
weeding and watering from the age of 6, to do it. “She forbid me,” Susan recalls. “I everything. “Once September 2008 hit,
learning how plants grow and how to keep guess it was just her position that women Warminster began drying up, and Devon
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was suffering even more. We were already Outfitters has leased 6.5 acres of the Waterloo’s bank-ordered liquidation. “We
bleeding from a thousand wounds.” former Waterloo site from the property’s asked Susan if she wanted Waterloo’s phone
To cut costs, Bobby shifted into high current owners, developer Eli Kahn and number to ring to hers,” says Bobby. “It
gear. He struggled to sell the Warminster partner Wade McDevitt, president of the took days to even get an answer, then the
location, a 56,000-square-foot monster on Devon Horse Show and CEO of a retail number went dead.”
a nine-acre site that drastically decreased real estate company. If approved, Urban Bobby asked Stuart if he thought Susan
in value. The land sat vacant for two years Outfitters’ $100-million Devon Yard had a job for him. It was a joke, of course.
before the LeBoutilliers converted it into complex will include a Terrain garden Bobby’s sense of humor is one of his best
263 Marketplace, a flea market and food- center, an Anthropologie, a boutique hotel traits, says Lucy—and it may have saved
vendor destination. But the bank wasn’t and two restaurants, plus other shops and him. “I’ve offered olive branches,” says
satisfied, forcing its closure so the property amenities—finally giving Devon what some Bobby. “We were once friends at work, and
could be sold. see as a “downtown to call its own.” we could certainly go back to that when
Debt mounted. Waterloo began losing These days, Susan is enjoying her Susan wants to bury the hatchet.”
vendors and couldn’t get product. It filed freedom. It’s what drives her—that, and After his dad died, Bobby often visited
for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the responsibility she feels for restoring the St. Agnes Cemetery in West Chester to
July 2012. Linda’s death only fueled the family name. “I’m driven, like my father, water the flowers at his burial plot. It wasn’t
bank’s impatience. She had guaranteed to create something,” she says. “If I was too long before he found himself watering
the Warminster loan. When she was gone, younger, I’d start three garden centers.” needy flowers at other grave sites. He’d
and the site was only attracting $3 million The location of her new business along spend three hours exhausting himself, then
offers, something had to give. Route 113 is prime. Three miles from came an epiphany. “I couldn’t save them
Waterloo never even built greenhouses the Pennsylvania Turnpike, LeBeau could all,” says Bobby.
in Warminster, and then it closed Devon become a destination. Loyal customers Subconsciously and slowly, he began to
to help stock the Exton location. “We from Villanova, Devon and Wayne are let go of his past. He and Lucy now ride
were always way overstocked—but that’s driving a little further “because, yes, it’s motorcycles, and they’re promoting wellness
how we grew up,” says Bobby. “We always mine,” she says. “I don’t feel too much supplements. “We want to continue to take
just built more shelves. Then customers pressure. I feel like it’s going to work.” care of people,” Bobby says.
wondered why stuff wasn’t falling off the When Susan left Waterloo in 2012, And he’s appalled by the work of local
shelves anymore.” she took out a home equity line of credit, contractors. “Proper landscaping increases
By the end, Bobby says, Waterloo had then later learned of a vacant site and a property’s value, but I can drive around
turned the corner and become profitable entered into a lease literally as Waterloo for four hours and not find one properly
again, but it couldn’t cover the debt or Gardens began liquidating. It created an designed and installed property—
pacify the bank. Fortunately, Linda didn’t opportunity to purchase equipment that commercial or residential,” he says.
live to see the bankruptcy. Battling cancer she couldn’t pass up. Five weeks later, she “It sounds like a great opportunity for
was enough. “We knew why God took opened, just four miles south of Waterloo’s Susan and you to build a relationship,”
Linda,” Lucy says. “She could never have Exton location. Her entire staff once Lucy suggests. “Maybe it’s time to heal.”
witnessed it.” worked at Waterloo. “I really like Susan,” Right now, the two don’t speak. But
The site in Exton sold for $4.6 says Lucy. “We want her to succeed. Maybe they do share a sense of renewal. In the last
million to BET Investments, a Horsham [we] could become a family again, now that days, a rainbow appeared over the Waterloo
commercial real estate company owned we’re not in the same business.” Gardens sign in Exton. Lucy took a picture
by Bruce Toll. BET has said it want to They only found out about LeBeau when of it. “It led me to believe there would
develop the property with a mix of uses, its operations manager, Michael Stuart, was be a future for everyone here,” she says.
but nothing is finalized. In Devon, Urban sent to buy fixtures and equipment during “Waterloo is in us all.” MLT
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bedrooms with adjacent private reading Archer says. “The change is in the process built in a style to match. On a more
or meditation rooms. Even guest suites of how horses get fed and turned out, and conventional note, there’s also been
are being are a bit more removed from the where the manure goes. It’s improving the The Willows in Villanova, St. Patrick’s
main areas. “COVID made us realize the lives and safety of the horses.” Church in Kennett Square and the
value of having actual rooms,” Buchanan Horses aren’t the only thing this region Lenfest Center at Cheslen Preserve
says. “It was, ‘Oh my goodness, I can’t get is known for. Archer and Buchanan have in Coatesville.
away from my family.’” dealt with plenty of quirky characters—or When it comes to houses, it’s the
On the other hand, the design of the remnants of their houses. A carriage character that matters most to Archer
equestrian facilities hasn’t changed. They’re house in Wayne built by Price still had a and Buchanan—that, and the current
still built on the 12-by-12-foot grid that hayloft and walls that tilted out six inches. inhabitants. Both architects bristle at the
dictates everything from the horse stall to Okie’s famous home in Berwyn had fallen notion that, like their predecessors, their
the stable itself. There’s a new priority on into disrepair and needed extensive repair firm has developed a distinct visual style.
the functionality of barns, paddocks and and renovation. Then there was the house “Our fingerprints don’t need to be visible,”
the like. “People are concerned with the on Avon Road in Haverford. Its previous says Buchanan. “It’s not all about the
safety and performance within the facilities owner believed he was a reincarnated architect. It’s all about the family that calls
because they’re invested in their horses,” German knight, so he had the house the place home.” MLT
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