Nemours Mansion and Gardens, Family Week Day 4
Nemours Mansion and Garden is the largest french formal garden in America. It is located in New Castle County, Delaware. It is a former estate of the Duponts, and was built over 1909 -1910 for Alfred Dupont's Second wife Alicia. The estate is done in the Rococo Style of Louis XVI.
If you like grand estates and the excesses of the original American Gilded age (which sadly I feel like we are entering into again) this is an amazing example of the gaudy excess of robber barons and Rail Tycoons. The Duponts made their fortune in the production of gunpowder I am glad that they plowed so much back into the community in the form of grand estates, many of the local cultural amenities are housed on their former homes. Nemours is pleasant since it is still so rarely visited almost all of the locals I have met have never been there, I want to get a season pass so I can go jogging on the nearly two mile paved path that follows the perimeter, in the spring and summer.
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