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  1. Louise Crowninshield died on July 11, 1958, in Wilmington, Delaware. [4] She was buried at Du Pont de Nemours Cemetery in New Castle County, Delaware. [5] Her husband, Francis Crowninshield, had died in 1950, and the couple had no children.

  2. Jul 7, 2024 · Louise Evelina du Pont was born to Henry Algernon DuPont and Mary Pauline Foster at the family estate of Winterthur in Delaware in 1877. She inherited wealth and status from her family’s early nineteenth-century forays into gunpowder and chemical productions, and subsequent involvement in politics and railroads.

  3. She was one of the charter members of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and was actively involved in the preservation movement in New England and throughout the United States. She died July 11, 1958 in New Castle County, Delaware and is buried at Du Pont de Nemours Cemetery in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.

  4. Louise du Pont, 13 years old in 1890, lived at another family home, Winterthur, two miles away. The explosion broke most of the windows in the Winterthur house and surely terrified her.

  5. Louise du Pont Crowninshield and What She Collected. From the 1930s to her death in 1958, Louise du Pont Crowninshield was one of the leaders of the Historic Preservation movement. In 1949, she was one of the founders of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

  6. Aug 3, 2020 · Today is the birthday of Louise du Pont Crowninshield, who was born on this day. Louise spent her life working on projects related to ecological preservation, charity, and horticulture. Aside from her philanthropic efforts, Louise is remembered as the last du Pont to live in the residence at Winterthur ("Winner-TOUR") before it became a museum ...

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  8. This slide-illustrated lecture explores the life of Louise Crowninshield, the sister of Henry Francis du Pont. Raised at Winterthur, she and her brother became well known collectors and scholars of Americana. While H.F. was forming what would later become Winterthur Museum, Louise was helping to lay the groundwork for what would become America ...

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