Title: Discover the Winterthur period rooms
First published: 1998
Description: Explaining why he created 175 period rooms after inheriting his family home at Winterthur, Henry Francis DuPont wrote, "I didn't believe the early-American arts and crafts had been given the recognition they deserved, so I assembled examples of architecture, furniture, and widely divergent early-American materials of all sorts to show America as it had been."
Subjects: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, Interior architecture, Interior decoration, Interior decoration accessories, Period rooms, Themes, motives, Rooms, Art collections
Places: Delaware, United States, Winterthur
LC classification: NK2003 .E83 1998