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In 2016, Julieann Shanahan and her husband bought an 11,000-square-foot stone house for $2.8 million in Villanova, Pa. She then spent over a million building three pavilions. Jeffrey Totaro

How Many Pavilions Is Too Many Pavilions? For This Homeowner, Three Was Just Right

Julieann Shanahan spent $1.6 million to build a trio of these freestanding structures in the backyard of her Villanova, Pa., home

By Nancy Keates

June 14, 2023 4:00 pm ET

For Julieann Shanahan, what started as an attempt to disguise a retaining wall in her backyard turned into an obsession with the architecture and history of pavilions—free-standing, open buildings used largely for recreation. She ended up spending $1.6 million to build three on her Villanova, Pa., property.

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