Albert Henry Schroder (1929-2004) was an American painter known for his paintings that recorded a vanishing America. He felt that it was his calling to record the remembrances of lost hopes and dreams. His realist style of oil painting captured for our children the bygone era of old lighthouses, churches, railroad depots, town halls and beautiful old mansions. It is also the case of this painting, which depicts the original Lederle Labs. The quotes "He who loves an old house, Never loves in vain," is the beginning of the poem House by Isabel Fiske Conant.
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