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an open-air women and children's shelter and a gymnasium for men and boys. This building is one of few of
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to draw up a ground plan. Those plans finally came to fruition in 1904–05 when the old DuPont mansion was demolished and the basic outlines of the park as seen today were put into place. At the time, the
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it into building lots. Around that time the city renamed the park DuPont Square, perhaps to encourage the family to keep it a park, but the name never stuck. Louisville ultimately purchased the old estate for $ 297,500 in 1904 (equivalent to $ 10,088,555.56 in 2023).
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