Alfred I. duPont had the Nemours Mansion built for his second wife Alicia on 3,000 acres in Wilmington, Delaware. It was designed in a late 18th-century French style by Carrere and Hastings, a New York architectural firm. The name has its roots in the family's history....
Delaware: Nemours, Wilmington American industrialist Alfred I. DuPont commissioned Nemours in 1907 as a wedding gift for his second wife, Alicia. Christened Nemours in honor of the DuPont family's ancestral homeland, the magnificent French Neoclassical Revival home boasts 77 rooms set on 300 manicur...