Packer, Asa, Mansion - View this location on map This is one of the most perfectly preserved mid-19th-century Italian villas in America, with originial furniture, chandeliers, and silver. A huge orchestrion - a giant Swiss 'music maker' with organ, bells and drum - is a prize exhibit. It was commissioned by Asa Packer (1805-1879), a coal and railroad magnate who built the Lehigh Valley Railroad and founded Lehigh University. Packer Road, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania Historical, Architectural

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