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Dr. Henry Ridgely House, 6 South State Street, Dover, Kent County, DE

Dr. Henry Ridgely House, 6 South State Street, Dover, Kent County, DE

Significance: This fine Italianate house was built for Dr. Henry Ridgely in 1869. The July 31, 1869, "Delawarean" noted, "The fine brick mansion of Dr. Ridgely will soon be completed." Survey number: HABS DE-177

Dr. Henry Ridgely House, 6 South State Street, Dover, Kent County, DE

Dr. Henry Ridgely House, 6 South State Street, Dover, Kent County, DE

Significance: This fine Italianate house was built for Dr. Henry Ridgely in 1869. The July 31, 1869, "Delawarean" noted, "The fine brick mansion of Dr. Ridgely will soon be completed." Survey number: HABS DE-177

Concord Pike Milestone, West side of U.S. Route 202, .7 mile north of Rockland Road, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

Concord Pike Milestone, West side of U.S. Route 202, .7 mile north of ...

Significance: The Concord Pike Milestone is a rare vestige of Wilmington, Delaware's nineteenth century turnpike system. This milestone, with a curved rather than pyramidal top, is a variation on the common de... More

Dr. John R. Sudler House, North Main Street, Bridgeville, Sussex County, DE

Dr. John R. Sudler House, North Main Street, Bridgeville, Sussex Count...

Significance: The Sudler House, the oldest known house in Bridgeville, bears the name of Dr. John R. Sudler, a successful physician and farmer, who purchased the property in 1833. The original three-bay, hall-... More

Mordington, Canterbury-Milford Road, Frederica, Kent County, DE

Mordington, Canterbury-Milford Road, Frederica, Kent County, DE

Significance: This is a 1777 example of a three-bay, two-and-a-half story, Georgian brick house with an earlier, one-and-a-half story frame wing. Survey number: HABS DE-6 Building/structure dates: 1777 Initia... More

Mordington, Canterbury-Milford Road, Frederica, Kent County, DE

Mordington, Canterbury-Milford Road, Frederica, Kent County, DE

Significance: This is a 1777 example of a three-bay, two-and-a-half story, Georgian brick house with an earlier, one-and-a-half story frame wing. Survey number: HABS DE-6 Building/structure dates: 1777 Initia... More

Mordington, Canterbury-Milford Road, Frederica, Kent County, DE

Mordington, Canterbury-Milford Road, Frederica, Kent County, DE

Significance: This is a 1777 example of a three-bay, two-and-a-half story, Georgian brick house with an earlier, one-and-a-half story frame wing. Survey number: HABS DE-6 Building/structure dates: 1777 Initia... More

Boys in front of drugstore. Dover, Delaware

Boys in front of drugstore. Dover, Delaware

Public domain photograph of America during the Great Depression, 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Vanor, Lancaster Pike & Radnor Railroad Station vicinity, Radnor, Delaware County, PA

Vanor, Lancaster Pike & Radnor Railroad Station vicinity, Radnor, Dela...

Significance: This eighteenth century farmhouse was enlarged and converted into a country house in the grand scale. Survey number: HABS PA-193 Building/structure dates: 1715 Initial Construction Building/st... More

Noxontown Mill, Noxontown Road (County Road 38), Middletown, New Castle County, DE

Noxontown Mill, Noxontown Road (County Road 38), Middletown, New Castl...

Significance: Noxontown Mill was typical of the small grain-milling establishments that predominated in Delaware throughout the colonial period. But it was atypical in the sense that it survived so long. In 1... More

Eliason Cartshed, Route 896, Middletown, New Castle County, DE

Eliason Cartshed, Route 896, Middletown, New Castle County, DE

Significance: The shed is a sound, surviving example of a building and construction type common to farmyards since the nineteenth century. It stored equipment. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this ... More

Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak route between District of Columbia/Maryland state line & Maryland/Delaware state line, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak route between District of Columbia...

Survey number: HAER MD-45 Public domain photograph of railway map, railroad tracks, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak route between District of Columbia/Maryland state line & Maryland/Delaware state line, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak route between District of Columbia...

Survey number: HAER MD-45 Public domain photograph of railway map, railroad tracks, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak route between District of Columbia/Maryland state line & Maryland/Delaware state line, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak route between District of Columbia...

Survey number: HAER MD-45 Public domain photograph of historic place in Washington DC, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak route between District of Columbia/Maryland state line & Maryland/Delaware state line, Baltimore, Independent City, MD

Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak route between District of Columbia...

Survey number: HAER MD-45 Public domain photograph of train tracks, railroad works, construction workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Monterey, Main House, State Road 423, East of Route 13, McDonough, New Castle County, DE

Monterey, Main House, State Road 423, East of Route 13, McDonough, New...

Survey number: HABS DE-207-A Building/structure dates: ca. 1847 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1854 Subsequent Work

Odessa Historic District, Main Street (Houses), Appoquinimink Creek, High, Main & Fourth Streets, Odessa, New Castle County, DE

Odessa Historic District, Main Street (Houses), Appoquinimink Creek, H...

Survey number: HABS DE-111-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Delaware, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lazaretto Quarantine Station, Wanamaker Avenue and East Second Street, Essington, Delaware County, PA

Lazaretto Quarantine Station, Wanamaker Avenue and East Second Street,...

See also HABS No. PA-125 for additional documentation. Significance: Built between 1799 and 1801, the Lazaretto Quarantine Station was among the earliest purpose-built, and is the oldest extant, quarantine-rela... More

Lazaretto Quarantine Station, Wanamaker Avenue and East Second Street, Essington, Delaware County, PA

Lazaretto Quarantine Station, Wanamaker Avenue and East Second Street,...

See also HABS No. PA-125 for additional documentation. Significance: Built between 1799 and 1801, the Lazaretto Quarantine Station was among the earliest purpose-built, and is the oldest extant, quarantine-rela... More

Lazaretto Quarantine Station, Wanamaker Avenue and East Second Street, Essington, Delaware County, PA

Lazaretto Quarantine Station, Wanamaker Avenue and East Second Street,...

See also HABS No. PA-125 for additional documentation. Significance: Built between 1799 and 1801, the Lazaretto Quarantine Station was among the earliest purpose-built, and is the oldest extant, quarantine-rela... More

Lazaretto Quarantine Station, Wanamaker Avenue and East Second Street, Essington, Delaware County, PA

Lazaretto Quarantine Station, Wanamaker Avenue and East Second Street,...

See also HABS No. PA-125 for additional documentation. Significance: Built between 1799 and 1801, the Lazaretto Quarantine Station was among the earliest purpose-built, and is the oldest extant, quarantine-rela... More

Lazaretto Quarantine Station, Wanamaker Avenue and East Second Street, Essington, Delaware County, PA

Lazaretto Quarantine Station, Wanamaker Avenue and East Second Street,...

See also HABS No. PA-125 for additional documentation. Significance: Built between 1799 and 1801, the Lazaretto Quarantine Station was among the earliest purpose-built, and is the oldest extant, quarantine-rela... More

Lazaretto Quarantine Station, Wanamaker Avenue and East Second Street, Essington, Delaware County, PA

Lazaretto Quarantine Station, Wanamaker Avenue and East Second Street,...

See also HABS No. PA-125 for additional documentation. Significance: Built between 1799 and 1801, the Lazaretto Quarantine Station was among the earliest purpose-built, and is the oldest extant, quarantine-rela... More

Matthew Lowber House, North Main Street, Magnolia, Kent County, DE

Matthew Lowber House, North Main Street, Magnolia, Kent County, DE

Significance: The Lowber House, constructed in 1774, is a typical Delaware, three-bay, hall-and-parlor farmhouse. The southern, gable end of this brick structure bears the initials of its builder, Matthew Lowb... More

Matthew Lowber House, North Main Street, Magnolia, Kent County, DE

Matthew Lowber House, North Main Street, Magnolia, Kent County, DE

Significance: The Lowber House, constructed in 1774, is a typical Delaware, three-bay, hall-and-parlor farmhouse. The southern, gable end of this brick structure bears the initials of its builder, Matthew Lowb... More

Matthew Lowber House, North Main Street, Magnolia, Kent County, DE

Matthew Lowber House, North Main Street, Magnolia, Kent County, DE

Significance: The Lowber House, constructed in 1774, is a typical Delaware, three-bay, hall-and-parlor farmhouse. The southern, gable end of this brick structure bears the initials of its builder, Matthew Lowb... More

Matthew Lowber House, North Main Street, Magnolia, Kent County, DE

Matthew Lowber House, North Main Street, Magnolia, Kent County, DE

Significance: The Lowber House, constructed in 1774, is a typical Delaware, three-bay, hall-and-parlor farmhouse. The southern, gable end of this brick structure bears the initials of its builder, Matthew Lowb... More

This photo shows what was formerly a chicken coop, in which during the berry season the Arnao family live on Hitchen's farm, Seaford, Del. 17 children and 5 elders live in this made over chicken coop. The age of 10 of the children is given below: 1 Child is 3 years old; 1 Child is 4 years old; 1 Child is 5 years old; 1 Child is 6 years old; 2 Children are 7 years old; 1 Child is 9 years old; 1 Child is 10 years old; 1 Child is 11 years old; 1 Child is 13 years old. Another photo in this collection shows the Arnao family on Truitt's Farm. On the day of the investigation no berries being picked on Hitchen's Farm. The family went over to the Truitt's farm to pick. [Handwritten notation:] See them picking strawberries (Sept 28, 1910) in photos & labels 1128-1129-1130. Edward F. Brown, Investigator.  Location: Seaford, Delaware / Photo by [Lewis W. Hine].

This photo shows what was formerly a chicken coop, in which during the...

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Naval Base Philadelphia-Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Building No. 523, Delaware Avenue between East Fourth Street & Webster Avenue, League Island, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Naval Base Philadelphia-Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Building No. 523,...

Significance: It is representative of infrastructure built to service the Naval Aircraft Factor constructed in 1919, as the valve house for the water tower located directly above it. Building 523 helped maintai... More

Dover Air Force Base, Hangar No. 1301, Dover, Kent County, DE

Dover Air Force Base, Hangar No. 1301, Dover, Kent County, DE

Significance: According to the National Register nomination, this structure "... is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places under criterion A for its use as the headquarters and enginee... More

Dover Air Force Base, Hangar No. 1301, Dover, Kent County, DE

Dover Air Force Base, Hangar No. 1301, Dover, Kent County, DE

Significance: According to the National Register nomination, this structure "... is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places under criterion A for its use as the headquarters and enginee... More

Whitman Estate, Lower Pond Spillway, Approx. .5 mile south of intersection of DE72 & Ebeneezer Church Road, Newark, New Castle County, DE

Whitman Estate, Lower Pond Spillway, Approx. .5 mile south of intersec...

Significance: The Lower Pond Spillway is a contributing element to the Whiteman Estate, a good example of the combination of Colonial and Colonial Revival styles which incorporates mid-twentieth-century landsca... More

Wilmington Friends Meetinghouse, Fourth & West Streets, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

Wilmington Friends Meetinghouse, Fourth & West Streets, Wilmington, Ne...

Significance: Early Wilmington's population as predominantly Quaker. On the highest piece of ground they built their meeting house and settled around it in an area of the city now known as Quaker Hill. The Qu... More

Wilmington Friends Meetinghouse, Fourth & West Streets, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

Wilmington Friends Meetinghouse, Fourth & West Streets, Wilmington, Ne...

Significance: Early Wilmington's population as predominantly Quaker. On the highest piece of ground they built their meeting house and settled around it in an area of the city now known as Quaker Hill. The Qu... More

Lesley-Travers Mansion, 112 West Sixth Street, New Castle, New Castle County, DE

Lesley-Travers Mansion, 112 West Sixth Street, New Castle, New Castle ...

Significance: In a town noted for its Georgian and Federal architecture, the Lesley-Travers Mansion stands out as a distinctive example of the Gothic Revival. Designed for Dr. Allen Voorhees Lesley by the Balt... More

Lesley-Travers Mansion, 112 West Sixth Street, New Castle, New Castle County, DE

Lesley-Travers Mansion, 112 West Sixth Street, New Castle, New Castle ...

Significance: In a town noted for its Georgian and Federal architecture, the Lesley-Travers Mansion stands out as a distinctive example of the Gothic Revival. Designed for Dr. Allen Voorhees Lesley by the Balt... More

Lesley-Travers Mansion, 112 West Sixth Street, New Castle, New Castle County, DE

Lesley-Travers Mansion, 112 West Sixth Street, New Castle, New Castle ...

Significance: In a town noted for its Georgian and Federal architecture, the Lesley-Travers Mansion stands out as a distinctive example of the Gothic Revival. Designed for Dr. Allen Voorhees Lesley by the Balt... More

Lesley-Travers Mansion, 112 West Sixth Street, New Castle, New Castle County, DE

Lesley-Travers Mansion, 112 West Sixth Street, New Castle, New Castle ...

Significance: In a town noted for its Georgian and Federal architecture, the Lesley-Travers Mansion stands out as a distinctive example of the Gothic Revival. Designed for Dr. Allen Voorhees Lesley by the Balt... More

Lesley-Travers Mansion, 112 West Sixth Street, New Castle, New Castle County, DE

Lesley-Travers Mansion, 112 West Sixth Street, New Castle, New Castle ...

Significance: In a town noted for its Georgian and Federal architecture, the Lesley-Travers Mansion stands out as a distinctive example of the Gothic Revival. Designed for Dr. Allen Voorhees Lesley by the Balt... More

Heller House, Route 299, Odessa, New Castle County, DE

Heller House, Route 299, Odessa, New Castle County, DE

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential home interior, living room, fireplace, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Whitall House, Delaware River & Hessian Avenue, National Park, Gloucester County, NJ

Whitall House, Delaware River & Hessian Avenue, National Park, Glouces...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-33 Survey number: HABS NJ-79 Building/structure dates: 1748 Initial Construction

A. I. Du Pont Estate, Blue Ball Dairy Barn, Junction of U.S. Route 202 & Rockland Road, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

A. I. Du Pont Estate, Blue Ball Dairy Barn, Junction of U.S. Route 202...

Significance: The Blue Ball Dairy barn and milk house were constructed in 1914 as part of the A.I. du Pont estate, known as Nemours. They were part of the estate farm complex, which existed to provide food and... More

Joseph Gilpin House, U.S. Route 1 (Birmingham Township), Chadds Ford, Delaware County, PA

Joseph Gilpin House, U.S. Route 1 (Birmingham Township), Chadds Ford, ...

Significance: This early stone house, part of which dates from c. 1695, was used by Lafayette during the Battle of Brandywine. Survey number: HABS PA-1116 Building/structure dates: ca. 1695 Initial Construct... More

Rensselaer & Saratoga Railroad, Green Island Shops, Tibbitts Avenue & Delaware & Hudson Railroad Tracks, Green Island, Albany County, NY

Rensselaer & Saratoga Railroad, Green Island Shops, Tibbitts Avenue & ...

Significance: An early railroad shop and building of typical heavy-timber and brick construction. Survey number: HAER NY-15 Building/structure dates: 1872 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1885-... More

Pennsylvania Railroad Improvements, Wilmington Train Station, Front & French Streets, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

Pennsylvania Railroad Improvements, Wilmington Train Station, Front & ...

Survey number: HAER DE-12-D Building/structure dates: 1905-1908 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1976 Subsequent Work

Blackwater Presbyterian Church, State Road 54, Clarksville, Sussex County, DE

Blackwater Presbyterian Church, State Road 54, Clarksville, Sussex Cou...

Significance: Oldest Presbyterian church building in southern Delaware. Founded by Charles Tennent. // 1767; rebuilt 1893. Clapboard siding over, presumably, heavy timber. Approximately 30' x 35'. Clapboard... More

Masonic Hall & Grand Theater, 818 North Market Street, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

Masonic Hall & Grand Theater, 818 North Market Street, Wilmington, New...

Significance: It is one of the finest remaining examples of cast iron architecture in America. It is associated with several major events in Delaware's history, but more importantly, it is famous for its rich t... More

Thomas Massey House, Lawrence & Springhouse Roads (Marple Township), Broomall, Delaware County, PA

Thomas Massey House, Lawrence & Springhouse Roads (Marple Township), B...

Significance: East section of the house is one of the earliest houses surviving in Pennsylvania. Survey number: HABS PA-1257 Building/structure dates: 1696 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca.... More

Brecknock, U.S. Route 13, Camden, Kent County, DE

Brecknock, U.S. Route 13, Camden, Kent County, DE

Significance: Brecknock, owned by the same family since 1766, was built in four sections, with the oldest section probably dating from the seventeenth century. Survey number: HABS DE-178 National Register of ... More

Brecknock, U.S. Route 13, Camden, Kent County, DE

Brecknock, U.S. Route 13, Camden, Kent County, DE

Significance: Brecknock, owned by the same family since 1766, was built in four sections, with the oldest section probably dating from the seventeenth century. Survey number: HABS DE-178 National Register of ... More

Barnes-Brinton House, 630 Baltimore Pike (U.S. Route 1), Chadds Ford, Delaware County, PA

Barnes-Brinton House, 630 Baltimore Pike (U.S. Route 1), Chadds Ford, ...

Significance: This house, erected about 1720, is noteworthy because of its excellent brickwork and exceptional interior woodwork. Survey number: HABS PA-173 Building/structure dates: ca. 1720 Initial Construction

Barnes-Brinton House, 630 Baltimore Pike (U.S. Route 1), Chadds Ford, Delaware County, PA

Barnes-Brinton House, 630 Baltimore Pike (U.S. Route 1), Chadds Ford, ...

Significance: This house, erected about 1720, is noteworthy because of its excellent brickwork and exceptional interior woodwork. Survey number: HABS PA-173 Building/structure dates: ca. 1720 Initial Construction

Richardson Hall, Carriage House, East Dover Hundred, 29 North State Street, Dover, Kent County, DE

Richardson Hall, Carriage House, East Dover Hundred, 29 North State St...

Survey number: HABS DE-313-A Public domain photograph - historical image of Delaware, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Woodlawn, Carriage Barn & Stable, Saint Georges Hundred, County Route 429, East of Route 428, Odessa, New Castle County, DE

Woodlawn, Carriage Barn & Stable, Saint Georges Hundred, County Route ...

Significance: The combination carriage house, stable, piggery, pig pen, chicken house represents the distillation of mid 19th-century reformed agricultural objectives which articulated values of unified functio... More

Collins-Sharp House, State Road 493 (moved to DE, Odessa), Collins Beach, New Castle County, DE

Collins-Sharp House, State Road 493 (moved to DE, Odessa), Collins Bea...

Survey number: HABS DE-179 Public domain photograph - historical image of Delaware, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Lazaretto, Delaware River vicinity, Essington, Delaware County, PA

The Lazaretto, Delaware River vicinity, Essington, Delaware County, PA

See also HABS No. PA-6659 for additional documentation. Survey number: HABS PA-125 Building/structure dates: 1799- 1800 Initial Construction

Nicholas Van Dyke Jr. House, 400 Delaware Street, New Castle, New Castle County, DE

Nicholas Van Dyke Jr. House, 400 Delaware Street, New Castle, New Cast...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-3 Survey number: HABS DE-9-5 Building/structure dates: 1799 Initial Construction

King Street, 200 Block, 216 King Street (Commercial Building), Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

King Street, 200 Block, 216 King Street (Commercial Building), Wilming...

Significance: One of thirteen nineteenth century, commercial buildings in the 200 block of King Street; served as a revenue service, boarding house, shoemaker's, fishmonger's saloon, milliner's, butcher's, pain... More

King Street, 200 Block, 216 King Street (Commercial Building), Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

King Street, 200 Block, 216 King Street (Commercial Building), Wilming...

Significance: One of thirteen nineteenth century, commercial buildings in the 200 block of King Street; served as a revenue service, boarding house, shoemaker's, fishmonger's saloon, milliner's, butcher's, pain... More

Kingston-Upon-Hill, Kitts Hummock Road, Dover, Kent County, DE

Kingston-Upon-Hill, Kitts Hummock Road, Dover, Kent County, DE

Public domain photograph - historical image of Delaware, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kingston-Upon-Hill, Kitts Hummock Road, Dover, Kent County, DE

Kingston-Upon-Hill, Kitts Hummock Road, Dover, Kent County, DE

Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Maen-Coch, Outbuildings, 200 Grove Place (Haverford Township), Havertown, Delaware County, PA

Maen-Coch, Outbuildings, 200 Grove Place (Haverford Township), Haverto...

Survey number: HABS PA-6058-A Public domain photograph of a church building, chapel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kellams Bridge, Spanning Delaware River at Stalker-Kellams Road (State Route 1018), Stalker, Wayne County, PA

Kellams Bridge, Spanning Delaware River at Stalker-Kellams Road (State...

Significance: It is one of the few short-span wire-cable suspension bridges remaining in Pennsylvania. It was altered extensively in 1936. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N446 Surve... More

Kellams Bridge, Spanning Delaware River at Stalker-Kellams Road (State Route 1018), Stalker, Wayne County, PA

Kellams Bridge, Spanning Delaware River at Stalker-Kellams Road (State...

Significance: It is one of the few short-span wire-cable suspension bridges remaining in Pennsylvania. It was altered extensively in 1936. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N446 Surve... More

Greenlawn, Tenant House, State Route 896, 1 mile south of intersection of Routes 896 & 71, Middletown, New Castle County, DE

Greenlawn, Tenant House, State Route 896, 1 mile south of intersection...

Significance: The Greenlawn farmer's house was erected by William Brady in the third quarter of the 19th century on a lot adjacent to the mansion house. The farmer's house, executed in the style of the mansion... More

Middletown Preparative Friends Meeting House, Middletown Road, 1 mile north of Pennell Road (Route 452), Lima, Delaware County, PA

Middletown Preparative Friends Meeting House, Middletown Road, 1 mile ...

Significance: In 1888, the Middletown Preparative Meeting House was significantly altered for the second time in order to conform to changing patterns of meeting house development. Middletown Meeting House was... More

Middletown Preparative Friends Meeting House, Middletown Road, 1 mile north of Pennell Road (Route 452), Lima, Delaware County, PA

Middletown Preparative Friends Meeting House, Middletown Road, 1 mile ...

Significance: In 1888, the Middletown Preparative Meeting House was significantly altered for the second time in order to conform to changing patterns of meeting house development. Middletown Meeting House was... More

Middletown Preparative Friends Meeting House, Middletown Road, 1 mile north of Pennell Road (Route 452), Lima, Delaware County, PA

Middletown Preparative Friends Meeting House, Middletown Road, 1 mile ...

Significance: In 1888, the Middletown Preparative Meeting House was significantly altered for the second time in order to conform to changing patterns of meeting house development. Middletown Meeting House was... More

Middletown Preparative Friends Meeting House, Middletown Road, 1 mile north of Pennell Road (Route 452), Lima, Delaware County, PA

Middletown Preparative Friends Meeting House, Middletown Road, 1 mile ...

Significance: In 1888, the Middletown Preparative Meeting House was significantly altered for the second time in order to conform to changing patterns of meeting house development. Middletown Meeting House was... More

Baynard House, Lewis Road (moved to MD-Chesapeake City Vicinity), Harrington, Kent County, DE

Baynard House, Lewis Road (moved to MD-Chesapeake City Vicinity), Harr...

Significance: An almost untouched example of a mid- to late-18th century country Georgian house. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-29 Survey number: HABS DE-159 Building/structure... More

Cochran Grange, Bank Barn, U.S. Route 301, West of Route 71, Middletown, New Castle County, DE

Cochran Grange, Bank Barn, U.S. Route 301, West of Route 71, Middletow...

Significance: The Cochran Grange bank barn represents the partial acceptance of a popularly proscribed agricultural building form into an area of intensive agricultural reform. Built to consolidate agricultura... More

William Gross, 516 Tatnall St. Newsboy, 15 years of age. Selling papers 5 years. Average earnings 50 cents per week. Father, carpenter, $18 week. Selling newspapers own choice, to get money to go to moving picture shows. Visits saloons. Smokes sometimes. "Serves" papers to prostitutes. On May 25 William gave to investigator a list of houses of prostitution written in his own handwriting, to which he serves papers. He also tells a story of occasionally guiding strangers to these houses, for which he receives from 15 cents to a quarter. Investigator, Edward F. Brown. Wilmington, Del.  Location: Wilmington, Delaware / Photo by Louis [i.e. Lewis] W. Hine, May, 1910.

William Gross, 516 Tatnall St. Newsboy, 15 years of age. Selling paper...

Picryl description: Public domain image of child labor, exploitation, children workers, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

George Lobdell House, U.S. Route 13, Wilmington vicinity, Minquadale, New Castle County, DE

George Lobdell House, U.S. Route 13, Wilmington vicinity, Minquadale, ...

Significance: Summer estate of George G. Lobdell - Wilmington, Delaware, manufacturer and inventor of railway car parts. Remodeled ca. 1891 as a retirement home for Lobdell's employees. Survey number: HABS DE-222

George Lobdell House, U.S. Route 13, Wilmington vicinity, Minquadale, New Castle County, DE

George Lobdell House, U.S. Route 13, Wilmington vicinity, Minquadale, ...

Significance: Summer estate of George G. Lobdell - Wilmington, Delaware, manufacturer and inventor of railway car parts. Remodeled ca. 1891 as a retirement home for Lobdell's employees. Survey number: HABS DE-222

Achmester, Frame Granary, Road 429, Route 896 vicinity, Armstrong, New Castle County, DE

Achmester, Frame Granary, Road 429, Route 896 vicinity, Armstrong, New...

Significance: The Achmester frame granary was constructed in the mid 19th century as a new grain storage and processing building intended to augment or replace the existing log granary. In addition to processi... More

Richardson Hall, East Dover Hundred, 29 North State Street, Dover, Kent County, DE

Richardson Hall, East Dover Hundred, 29 North State Street, Dover, Ken...

Significance: Built in the 1880s, Richardson Hall contributes to a street scape of Victorian homes built between 1860 and 1890. Located at the north end of the block, Richardson Hall is the largest of the grou... More

Albertson House, Delaware, Warren County, NJ

Albertson House, Delaware, Warren County, NJ

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-338 Survey number: HABS NJ-460

White Clay Creek Presbyterian Church, Robert Kirkwood Highway & Polly Drummond Hill Road, Newark, New Castle County, DE

White Clay Creek Presbyterian Church, Robert Kirkwood Highway & Polly ...

Significance: A rural mid-nineteenth century church structure of ample proportions and interesting decorative detail. Survey number: HABS DE-160 Building/structure dates: 1856 Initial Construction National R... More

Federal School House, End of Allgates Drive (Haverford Township), Havertown, Delaware County, PA

Federal School House, End of Allgates Drive (Haverford Township), Have...

Significance: This one room schoolhouse is the oldest extant building in Delaware County erected specifically for educational purposes. It also was the location of the first public school in Haverford Township.... More

Caesar Rodney - Public domain portrait engraving

Caesar Rodney - Public domain portrait engraving

Public domain photograph of male portrait print, engraving, 18th-19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Allbright Art Gallery, Delaware Park, Buffalo, N. Y.

Allbright Art Gallery, Delaware Park, Buffalo, N. Y.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a historic building in Detroit, Michigan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Houston-White Company Mill & Basket Factory, Main Street & Railroad Avenue, Millsboro, Sussex County, DE

Houston-White Company Mill & Basket Factory, Main Street & Railroad Av...

Significance: The history of the Houston-White company demonstrates how changes in agricultural production significantly altered the produce basket industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Unprocess... More

Ansley Wilcox House, 641 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, Erie County, NY

Ansley Wilcox House, 641 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, Erie County, NY

Picryl description: Public domain image of a residential building, house, 19th-20th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Odessa Bridge, Spanning Appoquinimink River at Main Street (State Road No. 299), Odessa, New Castle County, DE

Odessa Bridge, Spanning Appoquinimink River at Main Street (State Road...

Significance: The Odessa Bridge is a steel plate girder, bobtail swing bridge that rotates on a center bearing, appropriate to a relatively short light span. The bobtailed swing form is relatively unusual, and... More

Charles Thomas House, The Strand & Harmony Street, New Castle, New Castle County, DE

Charles Thomas House, The Strand & Harmony Street, New Castle, New Cas...

Survey number: HABS DE-87 Building/structure dates: 1801 Initial Construction

Dennison Bank Barn, Corner of Brackenville & Limestone Roads, Brackenville, New Castle County, DE

Dennison Bank Barn, Corner of Brackenville & Limestone Roads, Brackenv...

Significance: The Dennison Bank Barn is a rare surviving example of a tri-level bank barn. The original section of the barn shows little alteration and although in a state of disrepair, the stone walls and joi... More

Dennison Bank Barn, Corner of Brackenville & Limestone Roads, Brackenville, New Castle County, DE

Dennison Bank Barn, Corner of Brackenville & Limestone Roads, Brackenv...

Significance: The Dennison Bank Barn is a rare surviving example of a tri-level bank barn. The original section of the barn shows little alteration and although in a state of disrepair, the stone walls and joi... More

Carter's Bridge, Still Road (Road 211), spanning Choptank River, Sandtown, Kent County, DE

Carter's Bridge, Still Road (Road 211), spanning Choptank River, Sandt...

Significance: Carter's Bridge (State Bridge No. 211A) is Delaware's only surviving highway span representative of the steel I-beam and lally column bridge form. The four-span length of the structure is unusual... More

Amstel House, 2 East Fourth Street, New Castle, New Castle County, DE

Amstel House, 2 East Fourth Street, New Castle, New Castle County, DE

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1, FN-2 Survey number: HABS DE-9-3 Building/structure dates: ca. 1728 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 77000386

Amstel House, 2 East Fourth Street, New Castle, New Castle County, DE

Amstel House, 2 East Fourth Street, New Castle, New Castle County, DE

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1, FN-2 Survey number: HABS DE-9-3 Building/structure dates: ca. 1728 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 77000386

Delaware & Raritan Canal, Outlet Locks, Between State Route 18 & Raritan River, New Brunswick, Middlesex County, NJ

Delaware & Raritan Canal, Outlet Locks, Between State Route 18 & Rarit...

Survey number: HAER NJ-61 Public domain photograph - New Jersey, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Delaware & Raritan Canal, Outlet Locks, Between State Route 18 & Raritan River, New Brunswick, Middlesex County, NJ

Delaware & Raritan Canal, Outlet Locks, Between State Route 18 & Rarit...

Survey number: HAER NJ-61 Public domain photograph of a canal, water landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rothwell Farm, Barn, Route 458 near Route 42, Middletown, New Castle County, DE

Rothwell Farm, Barn, Route 458 near Route 42, Middletown, New Castle C...

Significance: The Rothwell Barn stands as one of the finest examples of the type of agricultural architecture built during the agricultural reforms of ca. 1830-1870. In plan, it incorporates all processing and... More

Parson Thorne Mansion, 501 Northwest Front Street, Milford, Sussex County, DE

Parson Thorne Mansion, 501 Northwest Front Street, Milford, Sussex Cou...

Significance: This house, clearly altered in the late nineteenth century, features exquisite Georgian paneling on the interior. An early owner was Rev. Sydenham Thorne, a co-founder of the town of Milford and ... More

Old Town Hall, 512 Market Street, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

Old Town Hall, 512 Market Street, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

Significance: Few buildings can boast of such a record of continual community service as Wilmington's Old Town Hall. From its erection in 1798 to the present, it has been a viable part of the City. It has kep... More

Old Town Hall, 512 Market Street, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

Old Town Hall, 512 Market Street, Wilmington, New Castle County, DE

Significance: Few buildings can boast of such a record of continual community service as Wilmington's Old Town Hall. From its erection in 1798 to the present, it has been a viable part of the City. It has kep... More

St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, Saint James Church Road & Old Capital Trail, Stanton, New Castle County, DE

St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, Saint James Church Road & Old C...

Public domain photograph of castle, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

St. Anne's Episcopal Church, Route 896, Middletown, New Castle County, DE

St. Anne's Episcopal Church, Route 896, Middletown, New Castle County,...

Significance: This small building is a carefully restored example of a 1768 brick church. Survey number: HABS DE-72 Building/structure dates: 1768 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1847 Subseque... More

Curtis Bok House, 120 Upper Gulth Road, intersection of Routes 320 & 76, Radnor, Delaware County, PA

Curtis Bok House, 120 Upper Gulth Road, intersection of Routes 320 & 7...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N479 Survey number: HABS PA-5501 Building/structure dates: ca. 1935- ca. 1938 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1989 Demolished Building/st... More

Dewitt Farm, Woodshed, (Middle Smithfield Township), Shawnee on Delaware, Monroe County, PA

Dewitt Farm, Woodshed, (Middle Smithfield Township), Shawnee on Delawa...

Public domain photograph of a barn, farm, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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