This generation of du Ponts re-created the company housing of the 19th century on a more luxurious scale. MARY BELIN DU PONT built Saint Amour after her husband, Lammot, died in a nitroglycerine explosion.… In 1900 the house was chosen by family consensus to host the January 1 reunion that celebrated the 100th anniversary of the du Ponts’ arrival in the United States…. In 1911 he spent $2 million of his own money to build the DuPont Highway in Delaware. senator from Delaware (1921-22, 1924-28), he was a pivotal figure in the Progressive Era’s Good Roads Movement, launching the National Highway Association. This was the Age of the Skyscraper, but Coleman, who loved performing magic tricks, declared, “I am going to build a monument one hundred miles high and lay it on the ground.” A decade before he became a U.S. Among other hotels, he owned the McAlpin and the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City the Bellevue-Stratford in Philadelphia and the Willard in Washington, D.C. After resigning from the presidency of the DuPont Company in 1915, he constructed what was then the largest office space in the world, the Equitable Building in Manhattan. THOMAS COLEMAN DU PONT was far more interested in real estate than architecture. 808 Broom Street, after the 1906-07 additionĬoleman du Pont’s camper, where he lived while building the DuPont Highway, in the backyard, ca.
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