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Robert Habersham Coleman's mansion near the old plank road (now the Cornwall Road) was built adjacent to "The Cottage," his parents' home seen to the right. Recent research indicates that it was constructed between 1888 and 1891, never completed and never lived in. Designed by Philadelphia architects Geo. W. and Wm. D. Hewitt, "Cornwall Hall" had a limestone foundation, red sandstone superstructure and glazed brown Spanish tile roofing. Sandstone came from the Colebrook estate of the Colemans. Cornwall Hall, symbol of the rise, fame and decline of the "king" of Cornwall during America's Guilded Age, was demolished after 1914. [Lebanon County: A Post Card History, p.33]
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