Portico

Our social event venue is Portico, featuring the Francis Cope House and surrounding gardens. The Francis Cope House serves as the gathering point for your event. The gracious Victorian stone mansion, built of Wissahickon schist from a local quarry, features a gabled roof, floor-to-ceiling windows and a delightful wrap-around porch from which guests can survey the picturesque English landscape. The house is large and elegant, but not ostentatious. Its interior is comprised of a variety of rooms with tall ceilings and windows that open up from bottom to top onto the porch. The grounds of Awbury Arboretum were laid out in the 19th century in the English landscape garden tradition by William Saunders, designer of the Capitol grounds in Washington, DC.