Henry Francis du Pont was an American horticulturist, collector of early American furniture and decorative arts, breeder of Holstein Friesian cattle, and scion of the powerful du Pont family. Converted into a museum in 1951, his estate of Winterthur in Delaware is the world's premier museum of American furniture and decorative arts.
Du Pont family in 1922
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library is an American estate and museum in Winterthur, Delaware. Winterthur houses one of the richest collections of Americana in the United States. The museum and estate were the home of Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969), Winterthur's founder and a prominent antiques collector and horticulturist.
The museum building
Winterthur Museum, Pennsylvania folk art room, c. 1950
Treaty of Paris, 1783 Benjamin West painting (left to right: John Jay, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Laurens, and William Temple Franklin)
A stone cottage in the "Enchanted Garden" section of the grounds, opened in 2001 and intended for families with children