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Around that time the city renamed the park DuPont Square, perhaps to encourage the family to keep it a park, but the name never stuck. [3] Louisville ultimately purchased the old estate for $297,500 in 1904 (equivalent to $10,088,555.56 in 2023). The DuPonts had made contingency plans for a public park on their property as early as 1883.
The DuPont Building on Rodney Square in Wilmington, Delaware. Heading south on Route 52 from Route 141, one enters Wilmington, Delaware, home to the headquarters of the DuPont Company. The most famous DuPont structure in Wilmington is the DuPont Building. The DuPont Building occupies the block bound by 10th, 11th, Orange and Market streets.
The DuPont Building, occupying the entire block bound by 10th, 11th, Orange, and Market streets, was one of the first high-rises in Wilmington, Delaware, United States. It looks out over Rodney Square. The building was built in phases, with the original building constructed in 1908 fronting Rodney Square.
The James G. Blaine Mansion is located on Lot 1 on Square 95 at the intersection of 20th Street, Massachusetts Avenue, and P Street NW on the west side of Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C. A small triangular lot separates the building from the traffic circle. The address for the main building is 2000 Massachusetts Avenue NW.
Winterthur has been called the "largest and richest museum of American furniture and decorative arts in the world." It was formerly known as Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum and as the Winterthur Museum and Country Estate. [1]
[33] [34] The Mansion on O Street a luxury boutique hotel, private club, events venue and museum has been a fixture in Dupont Circle for over 30 years and includes over 100 rooms and 32 secret doors. Also overlooking the square is The Dupont Circle Hotel. Two disused semicircular trolley tunnels follow the outline of the circle; the one on the ...
That bunker housed a shooting range that was used to test DuPont powders and other explosives. In later years, it housed a golf ball cannon and high speed photography equipment to measure the Coefficient of Restitution of golf balls made with various DuPont elastomers. Building 256. Surlyn ionomeric resins. Teflon FEP Fluorinated ethylene propylene
The Phillips Collection is an art museum founded by Duncan Phillips and Marjorie Acker Phillips in 1921 as the Phillips Memorial Gallery located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Phillips was the grandson of James H. Laughlin, a banker and co-founder of the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company.