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...acre estate, "Peirce's Park" was already a pretty arboretum. Du Pont money transformed it into an American Versailles. Du Pont spent $500,000 for fountains, built $2 million worth of greenhouses to put three acres under glass. Admiring the water gardens of Italy's Villa Gamberaia near Florence, he copied them at Longwood-adding lakes and canals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECREATION: $60 Million Bouquet | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

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