Hotel That Hosted Kennedy Put Up for Sale by DuPont
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In its heyday, the 102-year-old Renaissance-style Hotel DuPont in downtown Wilmington, Delaware, hosted First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and President John F. Kennedy. Out in the city’s suburbs, the DuPont Country Club offers a choice of three 18-hole golf courses.
Now both are up for sale after being cited by an activist investor as symbols of their owner’s corporate excess. DuPont Co. has started soliciting bids, according to a person familiar with the auction who asked not to be identified because the process isn’t public. Dan Turner, a DuPont spokesman, declined to confirm the company is accepting bids.