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WHYY By Artists Steve Donegan (center) and Syd Carpenter (right) created the hugel mound project, La Cresta, with the Woodmere Museum. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY) The Woodmere Museum’s stone Victorian mansion has been a landmark in the Chestnut Hill  neighborhood for 80 years, but few know what lies behind it. The museum is on a 6-acre estate whose back half slopes down toward the Morris Arboretum. Until relatively recently, that rear acreage has been largely ignored. “I’ve been living here in the area for 30 years, and I come up here to the museum a bunch of times, but I’ve never walked back here,” said Anna Herman, a neighbor who teaches urban agriculture in the Philadelphia School District. “I didn’t realize there was a whole property.”

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