Shapdale, Inc., was a Delaware corporation organized on May 26, 1928. Shapdale's outstanding stock, consisting of 3,262 and 1/2 shares of common stock, was completely owned by William du Pont, Jr. (Plan of Reorganization and Recapitalization, May 18, 1962, in Minute Book # 3 of Foxcatcher Livestock Company and Minute Book # 7 of Stockford Farms, Inc..

Shapdale, Inc., operated the subsidiaries Bellevue Water Company (incorporated 1927), Bellevue Park, Inc. (incorporated 1933), Delaware Title Insurance Company (from 1929 to 1936), Delaware Trust Building Corporation (merged into Shapdale, Inc., as its Delaware Trust Building Division in 1945), Fair Hill, Inc. (Maryland, incorporated 1945), Foxcatcher Livestock Company (incorporated 1945), Halcyon Company and Linwood, Inc. (both bought from Delaware Trust Building Corporation in 1937), Marchized, Inc. (incorporated 1955), Point Happy, Inc. (incorporated around 1956), Sara Corporation (incorporated 1945), Stockford Farms, Inc., Suburban Wilmington Development Company (incorporated 1951); and Walnut Hall, Inc. (incorporated 1945.)

In December 29, 1945, the Delaware Trust Building Corporation merged with Shapdale, Inc., and formed its Delaware Trust Building Division to conduct business related to the maintenance of, and additions to, the Delaware Trust Building (letter to Equitable Life Assurance Society, January 10, 1946, in 2. Delaware Trust Building Corporation / Delaware Trust Building Division Papers, a) General File).

According to the Plan of Reorganization and Recapitalization (1962) Shapdale, Inc., owned all the outstanding stock of Fair Hill, Inc., Stockford Farms, Inc., and Springlawn Corporation and also owned and operated the Delaware Trust Building and the Hercules Tower addition, which the company erected in 1958-1960. The time of dissolution is not known.