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Ethel du Pont Roosevelt-Warren (January 30, 1916 – May 25, 1965) was an American heiress and socialite and a member of the prominent du Pont family. She is best known for her widely publicized marriage to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., son of the 32nd U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt .
Ethel du Pont Roosevelt-Warren was an American heiress and socialite and a member of the prominent du Pont family. She is best known for her widely publicized marriage to Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., son of the 32nd U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Nov 12, 2020 · Ethel du Pont and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. announced their engagement on Nov. 15, 1936, at Owl's Nest, a du Pont family Greenville estate deep in the heart of northern Delaware's Chateau...
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- Nemours
- Eleutherian Mills
- 808 Broom Street
- Pelleport
- Old Nemours
- Gibraltar
- Saint Amour
- Chevannes
- Owl’s Nest
1802, renovated 1923-25 Residence of Alfred I. du Pont IN DECEMBER 1907Alfred had divorced his first wife, Bessie Gardner. Ten months later, Alicia divorced her husband, Amory Maddox, and within two weeks married Alfred. They brazened out the resulting scandal (second cousins, they endured family condemnation on both sides) by building a whipped-cr...
1802, renovated 1853, 1923-25 Residence of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont THE HOUSE HAS THE COHESIVE STORYLINEof a survivor: development, maturity, degradation, rescue, and resurrection. The garden’s story is more common: development, maturity, destruction. What makes Eleutherian Mills a bit of a conundrum is that the house—an 1802 structure rebuilt seve...
1809, renovated 1906-07 Residence of Coleman Du Pont THOMAS COLEMAN DU PONTwas far more interested in real estate than architecture. 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. Among other hotels, he owned the McAlpin and ...
1881, Residence of Louisa Gerhard du Pont and Evelina du Pont PELLEPORTwas designed in 1881 as a fashionably moody and baronial residence.… But the big, gray, stone pile lost its charm quickly. The ponderous architectural style combined with the unhappy histories of its successive occupants turned Pelleport into a doleful ruin long before it was to...
1824, renovated 1838, 1890 Residence of Eugene du Pont IN 1913 ETHEL HALLOCK DU PONT, the widow of William K. du Pont, modeled her new home, Stillpond, after Old Nemours, the house where her husband had been born. Ten years later, her brother-in-law Pierre Samuel du Pont, who had written so scathingly of his childhood at Nemours, bought the house a...
1844, renovated 1915, 1927 Residence of H. Rodney and Isabella du Pont Sharp GIBRALTARwas the family home of H. Rodney Sharp, his wife, Isabella du Pont, and their four children. Sharp’s influence on du Pont houses and historic preservation in Delaware was enormous. He was singularly responsible for what would later become a distinctive Brandywine ...
1892, renovated ca. 1920, 1934 Residence of Mary Belin du Pont MARY BELIN DU PONTbuilt 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…. This generation of du ...
ca. 1926 Residence of Bessie G. du Pont CHEVANNESwas born of a messy emotional triangle. In 1910 Bessie G. du Pont, the first wife of Alfred I. du Pont, was left homeless when Alfred razed Swamp Hall, the house where she had been living. A rambling Victorian frame house near the DuPont Company mills, Swamp Hall was Alfred’s childhood home, and he a...
1917 Residence of Eugene du Pont Jr. OWL’S NESTbecame one of the most famous houses in America in 1937. On June 30 of that year, debutante Ethel du Pont married Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., the president’s son, and the reception for 1,300 guests was held at the bride’s childhood home, which appeared to be a storybook setting for romance. A thunde...
Franklin with his first wife Ethel du Pont, September 11, 1937. On June 30, 1937, Roosevelt married the first of his eventual five wives, Ethel du Pont (1916–1965) of the du Pont family.
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Nov 10, 2020 · Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. Marries Ethel Du Pont (1937) - YouTube. British Pathé. 3.17M subscribers. 35. 3.5K views 3 years ago. GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit...
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Earlier, in 1937, Franklin Jr. married Ethel du Pont whose family was the financial backer of the Liberty League, an anti-New Deal group. With a few exceptions the du Pont family was packed with Roosevelt-haters.
