Retirement Barn, U.S. Route 13, South of Route 2, Biddles Corner, New Castle County, DE
Summary
Significance: The Retirement Barn is the last known surviving example in southern New Castle County of a tri-partite (three bay) traditional English style barn. Common in the 18th century this barn type was replaced with other modern agricultural building types in the mid 1800s.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-43
Survey number: HABS DE-219
Building/structure dates: 1790-1810 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1934- ca. 1963 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 85002113
Tags
Date
1963
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Vandergrift, Christopher
Location
Biddles Corner, 39.52500, -75.64944
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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