Shipman Mansion

The Shipman Mansion was built in 1869 by prominent editor Paul Shipman and his wife, writer Alice Davidson Shipman, who was an intimate acquaintance of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. The couple lived in their home – which overlooks the Delaware River and features innovative European architecture for its time – until their deaths in 1917. In 1922, a member of the Red Dragon Canoe Club purchased the Shipman Mansion and transferred the title to the club in 1925. Today, Shipman Mansion features a collection of antique watercraft, trophies, photographs, documents, and artifacts from Red Dragon’s early days in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.