Word: claymont
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Jacob Raskob sold his million-dollar estate "Archmere" on the Dela ware River at Claymont, Del. to the Premonstratensian Fathers of St. Norbert College, Depere, Wis. A show place with a palatial manor house in which are five nurseries, the property will be made into a boys' preparatory school, named Archmere Academy. For a year the Raskobs have resided at their Centreville, Md. place. There the family occupies "Heart felt Hall." On the outside, beneath the window of each of the twelve children's rooms, is a medallion bearing the likeness of the occupant. The guest house...