History & local legend
Widener University's Manor House and the nearby Castle, at East 14th and Potter streets in Chester, have distinct sorority-house traditions. At the Manor, a resident might reportedly find a sleeping roommate with a green ball of light beside her. Apple-and-cinnamon smells suggested baking, and some students associated the activity with former resident Louise Woodbridge.
At the Castle, residents described a woman on the third floor moving objects. Another account concerned a broken piano in the basement that nevertheless seemed to play.
Sources
- Haunts and History, Widener University entry preserving separately attributed traditions at the Manor and the Castle
- The Dome, November 2, 1990, school newspaper reporting Louise DeShong and Jonathan Edwards Woodbridge’s connection to the Manor
- Getty Research Institute, historic Woodbridge Manor House, 1325 Potter Street
- Widener University, the 1884 Castle, its current sorority and the corner of 14th and Potter
- The Shadowlands, Chester, Delta Phi Epsilon residents’ reports of the woman on the Castle’s third floor
- OpenStreetMap, public intersection at the two residences