Extend Your Merchandising Wingspan

Go, Go Gadget Arms: Extend Your Merchandising Wingspan

Jan. 24, 2006

By Abny Santicola, associate editor, FundRaising Success

Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, located in Delaware, sits on acreage settled and lived on by the du Pont family since the early 1800s. In the early 20th century, Henry Francis du Pont had a house -- later named Winterthur -- built to resemble 18th- and 19th-century European country houses. Decorating the house's interior to match this time period, du Pont began to amass a collection of rare antiques and Americana, giving the home and estate as a whole an otherworldly air. Recognizing this and Winterthur's value as an anchor to a time past, du Pont turned the estate into a museum in 1951.