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Winterthur: Winterthur Museum and Country Estate - Traveler Reviews - Beautiful Winterthur - TripAdvisor
We took the shuttle to the musuem which is attached to the mansion. We toured the rooms of furniture, dishes, fabrics, etc. Then went to the second floor for the two special exhibits-Ipressionalist Art and Pennsylvania Artist Work for birth announcements and marriage certificates. Our Discovery Tour...
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NGA - An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont's Winterthur Museum (05/2002)
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the opening of Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, 296 objects from the collections of the museum were presented. Furniture, textiles, paintings, watercolors, ceramics, glass, needlework, and metalwork, all made or used in America between 1640 and 1860, were in...
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About Winterthur
Winterthur, an American country estate, is the former home of Henry Francis du Pont (1880-1969), an avid antiques collector and horticulturist. In the early 20th century, H. F. du Pont and his father, Henry Algernon du Pont, designed Winterthur in the spirit of 18th- and19th-century European country...
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About Winterthur
Determined to share with the public his vast collection of Americana, Henry Francis du Pont founded Winterthur Museum in 1951. But du Pont did more than establish a great museum and naturalistic garden. In a single lifetime he created an extraordinary American country estate on par with English exam...
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About Winterthur
In Britain, the country house was an agricultural enterprise--a community of farms and holdings that provided for the manor lord and his family as well as for the hundreds of workers on the estate. The great country house stood as the cultural nucleus of its community, and by the 18th century, it wa...
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