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Away We Go:At home with the duPont familyPublished 07/13/08
Magnifique! Alfred I. duPont (1864-1935) must have thought Nemours was just that every time he traversed the estate's French-inspired mansion and gardens. And just imagine how his guests felt when they visited his country home in Wilmington, Del.; how, for almost a quarter century, they must have gushed with superlatives during occasions held inside the "grandest residence ever constructed in Delaware" or outside on the manicured lawns gracing the finest formal French garden in North America. Today, thanks to the completion of a $39 million "makeover," those wishing to turn their own imagining into reality -...
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