Nemours
A Portrait of Alfred I. duPont's Home
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Author
Publication
2011-11-22 - Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Language
English
Word Count
77,000 words, Guess
Page Count
308 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-100847836592
- ISBN-139780847836598
- Library of Congress Control Number2011929622
- OCLC Control Number694832846
- Better World Books9780847836598
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27651470M
Classifications
- LCCNA7238.W47 Y68 2011
- LCCNA7238.W55 Y68 2011
- LCCNA7238.W46 Y68 2011
and 1 more
- LCCNA7208.8
Description
One of America's greatest houses, the unequaled home of Gilded Age philanthropist Alfred I. duPont, has been newly restored to national acclaim. Nemours Mansion and Gardens is the 222-acre estate and onetime home of Alfred I. duPont-photographer, manufacturer, musician, politician, banker, inventor, suffragist, newspaper owner, businessman, and philanthropist. Designed and built in the Louis XIV style in 1909 by Carrere and Hastings, it is one of the largest and most opulent houses in America, to be compared only with the likes of the Biltmore Estate, the White House, The Breakers, and Hearst Castle. With seventy rooms spread out over 46,000 square feet, it is capacious, yet an intimacy of detail and graciousness of proportion give the visitor a feeling of serenity and a special sense of place that is unique to Nemours. Newly and painstakingly renovated, the house-now a museum that can be toured-glows with the finish of its original splendor, captured at long last in a volume that sumptuously reflects the magnificence of a masterpiece. -- Book Description from Website.
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