Nemours Estate in Wilmington, Delaware, is a 200-acre property created in 1909 and 1910 by Alfred I. du Pont for his second wife, Alicia. Built around a 105-room French neoclassical mansion designed by Carrère and Hastings in the Louis XVI style, it reflects the du Pont family’s French heritage and takes its name from Nemours in France. The estate is especially significant for its extensive French formal gardens, modeled in part on Versailles and featuring fountains, pools, statuary, a colonnade, Sunken Gardens, and the Temple of Love. Restored after closing in 2005, it remains a major Gilded Age expression of French taste in the United States.

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