Peirce-du Pont House — Attraction in East Marlborough Township

Have been coming to Longwood Gardens since the mid-1960s with my parents as a child and never took the time to come and visit the Dupont House. As I got older and my parents stopped bringing me I had never been back to the Gardens until my wife decided she wanted to come visit and take a lot of photos of flowers and the like. We had membership for a couple years prior to her passing and during that time we walked the entire gardens and visited every building that was open to the public. Finding out the history of the gardens through the tour of the Dupont house here was quite interesting and well worth the time we took to do it. If you do visit make sure you stop and watch the video and don't just walk through the house since the video helps to explain a lot of the history...

The former home of the Duponts, the original section built by the Peirce family, the original owners of the property, hence the name. Full of sweet videos and exhibits about the Du Pont family and the construction of the gardens. A picture here shows Pierre Du Pont at age 16, standing with the rest of his sizable family and taken shortly after his father's death by chemical explosion. Pierre already looked so old. Maybe it was the result of the weight of needing to step up to be head of his family. Maybe this was the reason he never had children of his own and instead doted on his neices and nephews. A very humanizing...

No visit to Longwood Gardens isn't complete without a visit to the House. What I enjoyed most was the informative video about the life of Mr. DuPont. He never had any children and his father died in an explosion caused by chemicals. Better living through chemistry as the old saying goes. Further down the path is the pretty lake and Italian fountains. Expect a lot of walking when you visit the Gardens. I walked just under seven miles this visit and it was...