Hotel du Pont, Wilmington, DE - Wilmington, Delaware- Old Europe Feels Alive in Downtown 1913 Wilmington Hotel

Hotel du Pont, Wilmington, DE, is at the center of this city's legal and financial district where it first opened its doors in 1913. It is also positioned at the heart of the Mid-Atlantic Seaboard.

It was Pierre du Pont, then President of the growing chemical empire, that commissioned the construction of the Italian Renaissance 12 story edifice. The construction lasted two and a half years, with European craftsmen detailing the interior workmanship.

Five years later, additional event venues were added to the hotel including the DuPont Theater which today seats 1,200 people for traveling Broadway performances. It is the oldest live stage theater that continues to operate in the United States. Six professional Broadway shows as well as a series of works fro children are presented here annually.

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Hotel du Pont, Wilmington, DE, has 206 Guest Rooms and 11 Suites that all are equipped with a large desk, in-room safes, 2 phone lines and multi-lingual voice mail. A separate shower and soaking tub are in each of the spacious bathrooms. The design of the renovated rooms won the International Gold Key Award.

The Luxury Suites have their own separate living room and dining area from the bedroom among other additional amenities.

For casual dining, the lobby lounge and grill are two in-house options at the hotel, in addition to the Green Room, the flagship restaurant of the du Pont, which for 24 years in a row has won the Four-Diamond AAA Award.

The Green Room offers a French menu in an elegant setting where live music played from a mezzanine accompanies dinner nightly. Oak beams, gold chandeliers and Italian mosaic are just a sampling of the elements of the period atmosphere here.

Event space is also luxurious here with a neo-French style Ballroom that opened in 1918. It has a capacity of 500 people for weddings and events.

In all, the Hotel du Pont, Wilmington, DE, has event space for meetings and functions that total more than 30,000 sq. ft.

A full range of audio equipment is available for meetings and conferences. For weddings, the hotel offers wedding planners and a variety of specialty services for the event. It also coordinates with two other local du Pont venues in the Brandywine Valley to offer an off ground wedding while part of a hotel wedding package for the wedding party and their guests.

A full styling salon and a fitness club are on the premises. The hotel also has a gift shop, florist, a coffee shop, jewelers and bank right on the premises as well as valet parking.

Various museums and sites in the Wilmington area can easily be accessed from this hotel.

A variety of specials and packages are offered by the hotel throughout the year.