Nemours estate

While other husbands may gift their wives with bouquets of flowers or strings of pearls, industrialist and philanthropist Alfred I. duPont bestowed his second wife, Alicia, with a 47,000-square-foot mansion modeled after Marie Antoinette’s Versailles retreat, Petit Trianon. Designed by illustrious New York architects Carrere and Hastings, the late-eighteenth-century neoclassical-style house was completed in 1910 - Page 4

Take a tour of these Brandywine Valley gems, which each carry a legacy of the du Pont family’s dedication to public horticulture. Start the day at Hagley Museum and Library, where the du Pont story begins, then travel to nearby Nemours Mansion and Estate to be dazzled by the largest formal French gardens in North […]

Nemours Mansion and Gardens isn't just the largest formal French gardens in North America, it's a remarkable estate in Delaware.

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'Nemours', the 105-room chateau built for family outcast Alfred I. duPont in the DuPont Historic Corridor, which gets it's name for the numerous estates, buildings, hospitals and organizations the duPont has constructed over the years in the area, located in Wilmington, Delaware. The mansion was designed by the famed architectural firm of Carrére and Hastings, in the Louis XVI Rococo style. The jardin á la française , "French formal gardens" are the largest of it's kind in North America, and…

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Peonies at Nemours Estate

Nemours Estate on Instagram: “Very excited to announce all three floors of the Mansion will be open this season for the first time since 2019! Opening day April 1st.…”

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Nemours Estate, Wilmington, Delaware. 7,192 likes · 261 talking about this · 5,465 were here. A 77-room Mansion, Chauffeur's Garage and 200-acres of...