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The estate went through many owners with various additional and subtractions of land. The estate caught duPont’s eye, and he bought it in 1901.
A map dated 1903, shows two greenhouses, a terraced formal garden, certain large trees, and numerous structures. DuPont nearly doubled the size of the mansion and cut a clearing through the wood so that it would be seen from the trains passing through his property.
Through photographs, it is known that his wife made extensive changes to the formal garden. The horseshoe-shaped garden is theoretically pattered after the old House of Representatives Chambers in Washington, D.C.
The garden, once enclosed by a split-rail fence, now sports a brick fence built in the 1920s to keep the
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