Top Ardmore Venues

• Spaces for 150 Guests
• 1 Historic Space
• 1 Mansion
• 1 Garden

Wyndham Alumnae House sits on the campus of Bryn Mawr College, a fieldstone farmhouse built in 1796 that once served as home to Quaker widow Patience Morgan and, later, industrialist Theodore Ely, who renamed the property Wyndham in 1893. Bryn Mawr College acquired the house in 1926, restoring the original structure and adding a modern wing funded by alumnae donations. Notable guests over the years have included Katharine Hepburn, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Gloria Steinem. The venue offers both indoor and outdoor spaces for events, from intimate dinners for two to elegant sit-down dinners for up to 150 guests, with cocktails and dancing on its flagstone terrace. Guests gather among wonderfully appointed rooms with understated elegance, just steps from Bryn Mawr College's historic gardens and arboretum. Wyndham is suited to weddings, special occasions, catered business meetings, and banquets, with catering services arranged through the college's dining services team.

• Spaces for 130 Guests

The Historic Grange Estate is a mansion and grounds in Havertown, Pennsylvania, preserved and operated by Friends of the Grange. The property includes the main house, a carriage house, and surrounding gardens, and is known locally for its "Living History in Havertown" mansion tours held on Sunday afternoons throughout the season. Beyond tours, the estate hosts a rotating calendar of community gatherings suited to the property's historic character: summer Grange Picnic Evenings on the lawn with live music, and a Christmas season that transforms the mansion with thirteen decorated trees, an antique Santa Claus collection, and the Cobbs Creek Lines Holiday Railroad running in the carriage house. The on-site Grange Vintage Shop, set in the porte-cochere, sells handcrafted items from local makers during tour season.

• Spaces for 370 Guests

Belmont Mansion is a historic estate in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park, where Founding Fathers including George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison once visited, and where Judge Richard Peters hosted his close friend the Marquis de Lafayette. The estate is also home to the Underground Railroad Museum, which tells the story of Cornelia Wells and Belmont's role as a place of safekeeping for those seeking freedom from the Antebellum South. Today the mansion hosts weddings, corporate gatherings, and milestone celebrations across two rentable spaces, the Cornelia Wells Ballroom and the Tent Pavilion, with grounds that open onto views of the Philadelphia skyline. An events team is available for consultations to help plan life's special moments against the estate's backdrop of history and elegance.

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• Spaces for 225-250 Guests
• 1 Ballroom

Spring Mill Ballroom has hosted weddings, celebrations, and corporate gatherings in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania since 1973. The venue sits on a historic 32-acre property overlooking the Schuylkill Valley, with a recently renovated ballroom offering natural light, a large dance floor, and views of the surrounding grounds. The single ballroom space spans 3,800 square feet and holds up to 250 guests theatre-style or 225 for seated events, suiting everything from weddings and bar and bat mitzvahs to corporate meetings and awards ceremonies. It comes equipped with a full bar, a state-of-the-art kitchen, WiFi, a wireless microphone system, and a built-in projector and screen for presentations, along with a bridal party changing room and an outdoor lawn area. The venue is handicap accessible and offers free on-site parking for guests.

• Spaces for 175 Guests
• 1 Ballroom

The Champagne Room at Polish American Citizens Association is a banquet hall in Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania, operated by the Polish American Citizens Association, which was established in 1930. The newly renovated hall accommodates up to 175 guests and comes with an attached commercial kitchen, giving planners an all-in-one setup for weddings, bridal and baby showers, and birthday parties. The venue offers both table service and buffet-style catering, a fully stocked bar, and staff with more than a decade of event experience. Kid-friendly menu options and dietary and allergy accommodations are available, and bands or other entertainment can be arranged for the celebration. The space is handicap accessible and offers ample off-street parking, with easy access from I-95 and the Blue Route. Couples and hosts can schedule a complimentary consultation to discuss flexible packages and rates for their event.

• Spaces for 30-400 Guests
• 2 Event Spaces

The Common Place is a community center in Southwest Philadelphia, housed in a building that also serves as home base for the organization's youth and family programming. Beyond its work in education, food sovereignty, and community collaboration, The Common Place opens its doors to community partners and individuals looking to host events. The building offers a handful of distinct spaces for gatherings. The Greenway is a multi-purpose room built around a stage, suited to larger gatherings and performances and accommodating up to 80 seated guests or 125 standing. The Parlor is a smaller, classroom-style room for more intimate groups of around 30, with an adjoining kitchenette available for food warming and preparation. Hosts interested in booking a space submit a request online and hear back from The Common Place's team within 24 to 48 hours.

• Spaces for 145-300 Guests
• 2 Event Spaces
• 1 Historic Space

In the heart of the University of Pennsylvania campus, St. Mary's Church, Hamilton Village, has been a place of prayer, hospitality, and belonging for more than 200 years. The neo-Gothic church is part of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania and serves as the Episcopal Church at Penn, welcoming a loving, diverse, and inclusive community. St. Mary's has long been a community hub on Penn's campus and in the surrounding neighborhood, hosting music and other cultural and arts events for decades. Its Sanctuary and Parish Hall are available to book for weddings, performances, workshops, charity fundraisers, and community gatherings. Renters begin the process by requesting a Facilities Usage Application and scheduling a site tour with the church's staff.

• Spaces for 275 Guests

The Ballroom at Paxon Hollow Country Club is a banquet venue in Media, Pennsylvania, operated by Anthony's Caterers. Overlooking the country club's golf course, the newly renovated banquet room hosts wedding receptions, private parties, and corporate events. For weddings, The Ballroom offers both elegant, formal settings and more intimate arrangements suited to celebrations of varying sizes. Outdoor ceremonies can be held in the property's gazebos, with the golf course and greens available as a backdrop for wedding photography. A bridal suite is available to accommodate the wedding party on-site. The Ballroom also welcomes private parties, holiday celebrations, and corporate meetings and staff functions, with private dining rooms available for smaller gatherings. Events can be booked seven days a week, and Anthony's provides full in-house catering with customizable standard and upgraded menu packages, along with a sales and events team that assists with planning from the initial booking through the event itself.

• Spaces for 150-250 Guests
• 1 Museum
• 1 Outdoor
• 1 space at this venue

Established in 1931 as the first art center on the Main Line, Wayne Art Center began in a carriage house on Louella Avenue and has grown into a 30,000-square-foot facility on Maplewood Avenue in Wayne, Pennsylvania. The nonprofit center welcomes more than 35,000 visitors and program participants annually and hosts more than 20 exhibitions each year alongside its classes in painting, ceramics, jewelry, and the culinary arts. The center's galleries and studios double as event space for weddings, corporate gatherings, and milestone celebrations. The Davenport Gallery, the largest of its exhibition spaces at 3,500 square feet, features cathedral ceilings and a wall of windows that fill the room with natural light, while the Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Gallery offers hardwood floors and museum-quality LED lighting. Seven gardens connect the property along a stone walking path, including a terrace with magnolia trees that serves as a backdrop for wedding ceremonies and receptions. Rentals can accommodate up to 250 guests for a cocktail-style event or 150 for a seated dinner, with amenities including air conditioning, hardwood floors, high ceilings, ample parking, and full handicap accessibility.

• Spaces for 220 Guests

Set within the historic Atwater Kent Radio Factory in Philadelphia, once the largest radio manufacturing complex in the world, Material Culture occupies 60,000 square feet of soaring, cathedral-like industrial space, including a former train station where raw materials once arrived and finished radios departed. Today the building operates as both an emporium of art, antiques, crafts, furnishings, and architectural elements from around the world, and a dynamic cultural venue. Both the venue's inventory and its dramatic retail space are available for rental, making it a striking backdrop for private events, film productions, commercial shoots, and large-scale creative projects. The towering industrial galleries have hosted gatherings ranging from intimate salon-style talks to large-scale receptions, often paired with pop-up food tastings, outdoor barbecues, and other celebratory gatherings. The space has also served as a stage for exhibitions, scholarly lectures, and film screenings, giving planners a setting layered with global art and antiques rather than a blank room.

• Spaces for 400 Guests
• 1 Event Space

Water Works formerly drew visitors from all over the world, including Charles Dickens, who commended the "pleasing design" of the building for its blend of graceful Neoclassical architecture on the outside with then-revolutionary technology on the inside. Columned walkways, a vintage gazebo, the Art Museum perched dramatically above, and Boathouse Row stretched out along the Schuylkill River just beyond are some of the features that contribute to the Water Works' status as one of the city's most picturesque settings. Today, the Water Works offers lavish interior spaces that are replete with rich contemporary luxury. Adding an outdoor ceremony to your reception is something that should come as no surprise given the famous views, classically exquisite structures, groomed fields, and gardens that are all around you. The Water Works is home to a diverse range of environments, the likes of which are not often found in a single venue. The breathtaking scenery, tasteful architecture, and beautifully manicured grounds make it an obvious decision to hold the ceremony and reception outside.

• Spaces for 250 Guests

The Brossman Center serves as the hub of United Lutheran Seminary's Philadelphia campus, set in the historic Mt. Airy neighborhood at 7301 Germantown Avenue. The building sits within walking distance of Chestnut Hill and close to Center City and Old City, home to the Constitution Center, Liberty Bell, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with easy access to public transportation. The center offers a welcoming and adaptable setting for a wide range of events, from formal banquets and receptions to award dinners and milestone celebrations. Flexible eating arrangements and on-site catering support suit banquets and parties, while audiovisual capabilities and comfortable layouts make the space well suited to business lunches, corporate gatherings, and training sessions. Its spacious design and central location also lend it to community forums and town hall-style meetings. Guests of the Brossman Center have free parking in a dedicated lot, with close proximity to public transportation into Center City Philadelphia and the airport.

• Spaces for 96-150 Guests
• 2 Event Spaces
• 2 Historic Spaces
• 1 Meeting Space

Chestnut Hill College hosts weddings, corporate events, and social gatherings in historic Saint Joseph Hall, on the college's campus in Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill neighborhood. The Hall's Rotunda and adjacent Parlors give the venue its character, offering a distinctive, historic setting for celebrations. The Rotunda accommodates up to 125 guests for cocktail-style or theater-style events, or seats 96 guests at rounds of eight. The East Parlor and Redmond Room hold up to 150 guests for cocktail or theater-style setups, 60 in a classroom configuration, or seat 120 guests at rounds of eight. Event packages include catering and a full range of audiovisual support, with the College's events team available to arrange site visits and answer questions about available dates.

• Spaces for 125 Guests
• 1 Event Space

Founded in 1917 in Philadelphia's Fairmount neighborhood, the Ukrainian League of Philadelphia is a social club established to preserve Ukrainian cultural, spiritual, and national traditions. Housed in its own brick building on North 23rd Street, the League has spent more than a century sponsoring social gatherings, showcasing Ukrainian artists, poets, and writers, and blending Ukrainian heritage with community life. The League's hall is available to rent for private events, including birthday celebrations, retirement parties, baby showers, graduation parties, holiday parties, and arts and crafts gatherings, for both members and non-members. The space includes a stage with speakers, use of the caterer's kitchen, central air conditioning and heat, and a separate unstocked bar space. The League's members-only bar is open Thursday through Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons, including for Eagles games, giving the club an active social life alongside its event rentals.

• Spaces for 60-629 Guests
• 12 Museums
• 3 Outdoor Spaces
• 12 Total Spaces

Designed in the 1890s, the Penn Museum is a 300,000-square-foot historic building on the University of Pennsylvania's campus, with exterior details including glass mosaics by the Tiffany Glass Company, sculptures by Alexander Stirling Calder, and marble medallions by John Ross of New York City. Inside, the Museum houses one-of-a-kind artifacts acquired from over 300 archaeological and anthropological expeditions, giving guests a world of history to explore in a single evening. The Museum welcomes wedding ceremonies and receptions, showers, rehearsals, mitzvahs, corporate events, and philanthropic occasions. Event spaces range from the Asia Gallery, the Museum's largest, set beneath a 90-foot early 20th-century dome, to the newly renovated Sphinx Gallery with its arched windows and marble staircases, to Coxe Hall's soaring ceilings and polished terrazzo floors. Outdoor options include the Warden Garden, with Tiffany Glass Company mosaics, and the Stoner Courtyard, featuring sculptural pieces by Alexander Stirling Calder and a central marble fountain. For lectures, meetings, and performances, the Museum offers the coffered-dome Harrison Auditorium, the fully AV-equipped Widener Lecture Hall, and Rainey Auditorium. Catering is provided in-house by Restaurant Associates, and the Museum's Simple & Sweet package offers an intimate, budget-friendly weekday daytime wedding option for up to 70 guests. Every event is monitored by museum security personnel to protect the collections and historic structure throughout.

• Spaces for 40 Guests
• 1 Hotel
• 1 Meeting Space

Chestnut Hill Hotel traces its origins to "Summer Hausen," a colonial-era vacation destination, and has carried a reputation as an accommodating retreat ever since. Located on Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia's historic Chestnut Hill neighborhood, the hotel blends 18th-century-style architecture and decor with modern amenities, offering guests a period atmosphere alongside contemporary comforts. For meetings and private events, the hotel offers the Bombay Room, a 600-square-foot space that accommodates up to 40 guests for corporate gatherings and social functions alike. Guests may bring in their own food or work with outside caterers, including the hotel's recommended partners, Chestnut Grill and Paris Bistro. The hotel is also home to on-site dining venues, including Chestnut Hill Brewing Company, giving guests and event attendees dining options without leaving the property.

• Spaces for 300 Guests
• 1 Outdoor
• 1 Historic Space
• 1 space at this venue

Bartram's Garden is a nearly 50-acre public park along the Schuylkill River in Southwest Philadelphia, recognized as a National Historic Landmark and counted among the oldest botanical gardens in the United States. The grounds sit in Lenapehoking, the homeland of the Lenape people, and combine historic buildings, riverfront trails, and cultivated gardens with the Sankofa Community Farm, an African Diaspora-focused farm on site. For private events, the Garden's catering partner Jamie Hollander Gourmet hosts celebrations for up to 315 guests, most often centered on the Eastwick Pavilion, a riverfront space with a covered porch overlooking the Schuylkill and space for up to 300 guests. Couples and hosts can pair an outdoor ceremony among the Garden's historic trees and flower beds with a reception in the pavilion, and the property's historic stone barn, with its large windows and natural light, is available as a getting-ready space. A patio and lawn games area round out the grounds for guests to enjoy between the ceremony and reception. Beyond private celebrations, Bartram's Garden also offers free space for small indoor or outdoor community gatherings of up to 50 people, with priority given to neighbors and partners from Southwest Philadelphia, and welcomes picnics and informal outdoor gatherings on a first-come, first-served basis.

• Spaces for 12-175 Guests
• 2 Outdoor Spaces
• 3 Historic Spaces
• 5 Total Spaces

Morris Arboretum & Gardens is a 92-acre public garden in Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill neighborhood, affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania. For weddings, the arboretum offers exclusive access to its woodlands, meadows, and gardens, with couples choosing from five distinct ceremony locations across the grounds, including the Rose Garden and the Log Cabin. Cocktail hour can take place at Out on a Limb, a treetop platform roughly 40 feet above ground with views across the property, before guests move to a tented reception on the Front Lawn strung with bistro lighting. Full weddings accommodate up to 175 guests, or 155 with a designated dance floor, and run from April through October. The arboretum also hosts smaller ceremony-only bookings and self-guided micro ceremonies for up to 15 people. All private events include admission to the grounds, accessible restrooms, garden pathways, and free parking, with catering handled by one of five approved partner teams. Beyond weddings, the historic Widener Welcome Center, an 1888 stone building, provides meeting and retreat space, including boardroom, classroom, and gallery rooms, along with an open-air hillside tent for larger gatherings.

• Spaces for 100 Guests
• 1 Historic Space
• 1 Meeting Space

The 23rd Street Armory is the historic home of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, an active Pennsylvania National Guard cavalry unit founded in 1774 and headquartered in the building since 1900. Situated on 23rd Street between Market and Chestnut, within walking distance of 30th Street Station, the armory pairs its working military history with event space for weddings, corporate gatherings, markets, trade shows, and galas. The Ring is the armory's signature space: a versatile, clear-span floor of more than 13,000 square feet that once housed the Troop's mounted horses before the building was mechanized during World War II. It transforms readily from an elegant reception with video walls and butlered hors d'oeuvres to a more relaxed gathering with lounge furniture and food trucks, and includes the adjoining Officers Quarters, a formal entrance and library often used as a green room or check-in area. Upstairs, the recently renovated Dining Room and Museum offers a more intimate setting of about 3,500 square feet, with wainscoting, gilded antique paintings, crystal chandeliers, and the First City Troop's own historical collection one floor below. For larger events, the Ring and the Dining Room and Museum can be booked together, with the Ring doubling as private indoor parking for roughly 60 cars. Events at the armory work with the venue's in-house preferred caterers and, for production needs, its partner Eventions Productions for lighting, sound, and audio visual support.