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Photographer: Bill Pfingsten
Taken: November 7, 2008
Caption: Rockwood Mansion Descriptive Marker
Additional Description: Joseph Shipley built Rockwood between 1851 and 1854. A Wilmington native, Shipley amassed his fortune as a merchant and banker in Liverpool, England. In 1851, he retired to Wilmington and hired Liverpool architect George Williams to design a house similar to Shipley's Victorian country house in England. Shipley shared Rockwood with his unmarried sisters. After the death of the last sister, Rockwood passed to her great-nephew Edward Bringhurst, Jr. in 1891.
Left; Joseph Shipley about 1840. Middle: Earliest image of Rockwood Mansion about 1860. Top Right: Wyncote, Joseph Shipley's residence in England designed by George Williams in 1840.
Submitted: November 16, 2008, by Bill Pfingsten of Bel Air, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p43753
File Size: 1.013 Megabytes

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