Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Epping Forest (also known as the Alfred I. duPont Estate) was a historic, 58-acre (230,000 m 2) estate in Jacksonville, Florida, United States where a luxurious riverfront mansion was built in the mid-1920s by industrialist Alfred I. du Pont and his third wife, Jessie Ball du Pont.
Nemours was created by Alfred I. du Pont in 1909–10 as a gift for his second wife, Alicia. It was named for the north-central French town of Nemours, which was affiliated with his great-great-grandfather, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours. Carrère and Hastings designed the mansion, which is in the Louis XVI style of French architecture. [2] [3]
It is “where the du Pont story begins.” [11] Hagley is the site of the Eleutherian Mills gunpowder works founded by Eleuthère Irénée du Pont in 1802. It provides a glimpse at early American industry and includes restored mills, a workers' community, and the ancestral home and gardens of the du Pont family.
The DuPont-Guest Estate, now known as the NYIT de Seversky Mansion, is a historic estate located at Brookville in Nassau County, New York. Since 1972, it has been part of the Old Westbury campus of the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT).
The du Pont family (English: / d uː ˈ p ɒ n t /) [1] or Du Pont family is a prominent American family descended from Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739–1817), a French minor aristocrat. It has been one of the richest families in the United States since the mid-19th century, when it founded its fortune in the gunpowder business.
It was formerly known as Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum and as the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate. [1] H. F. established the main mansion as a public museum for American decorative arts in 1951 and moved to a smaller house on the estate.
Owners of the historic Gibraltar mansion property have another plan for redevelopment, but neighborhood opposition is already mounting. How money and opposing ideals left the historic Gibraltar ...
The 90-year-old du Pont mansion, Liseter Hall, in which du Pont was raised and on which property he had lived for 57 years, was demolished by Glenn Miller Demolition in January 2013. [40] The mansion stood on a 400-acre (160 ha) portion of the property that is now being developed by Toll Brothers into a "master planned community of 449 luxury ...