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Chateau Country
Daniel D. Miller
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Description for Chateau Country
Num Pages: 272 pages, 174 b/w & color photos, 29 prints, 33 drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 310 x 231 x 31. Weight in Grams: 2156.
Originally from France, the du Pont family settled in the Brandywine River Valley. Chateau Country is an intimate portrait of the houses built by this Delaware dynasty. Their first dwelling was a modest six-room house just steps from the gunpowder mills that made the du Ponts wealthy. One hundred years later, their largest house had 176 rooms and thirty-six servants on 2,300 acres of land. Since company founder E.I. du Pont built Eleutherian Mills in 1802, almost one hundred houses have been built nearby and occupied by his descendants. Many spectacular estate houses have been razed, but thirty-three du Pont ... Read more
Originally from France, the du Pont family settled in the Brandywine River Valley. Chateau Country is an intimate portrait of the houses built by this Delaware dynasty. Their first dwelling was a modest six-room house just steps from the gunpowder mills that made the du Ponts wealthy. One hundred years later, their largest house had 176 rooms and thirty-six servants on 2,300 acres of land. Since company founder E.I. du Pont built Eleutherian Mills in 1802, almost one hundred houses have been built nearby and occupied by his descendants. Many spectacular estate houses have been razed, but thirty-three du Pont ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764344152
SKU
V9780764344152
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About Daniel D. Miller
Daniel DeKalb Miller owned a hotel representative company in New York. He and his wife published Distinctive Destinations, an international travel newsletter, for fifteen years, visiting more than 175 countries. They live in the heart of Brandywine Valley near many of the du Pont houses.
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