William H. Ward House, North side of Road 244, .25 mile east of Road 2...
Significance: The William H. Ward house is an example of the single-pile, hall-parlor-plan house type utilized in Delaware from the middle seventeenth century, persisting in the lower regions of the state throu... More
William H. Ward House, North side of Road 244, .25 mile east of Road 2...
Significance: The William H. Ward house is an example of the single-pile, hall-parlor-plan house type utilized in Delaware from the middle seventeenth century, persisting in the lower regions of the state throu... More
J. Layton House, County Road 386, west of intersection with State Rout...
Significance: The William Layton house is a significant example of an early 19th century, 1-story, hall-parlor plan plantation house of a type associated with the area throughout the late 18th and early 19th ce... More
Vandergrift-Biddle House, Junction of US Route 13 & County Road 2, Sai...
Significance: Begun by the Vandergrift family in the mid-eighteenth century as a one-story, hall-plan dwelling and repeatedly enlarged through the nineteenth century by the Biddle family and others, the Vanderg... More
J. E. Rhoads & Sons, 2100 West Eleventh Street, Wilmington, New Castle...
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Rose Cottage, 102 South State Street, Dover, Kent County, DE
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Seaford Bridge, Spanning Nanticoke River at Front Street, Seaford, Sus...
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Barker House, 6001 Lancaster Pike (State Road 48), Wilmington, New Cas...
Significance: The Barker House is a typical vernacular frame farm house which is becoming increasingly scarce with the development of New Castle County. The ca. 1800 section of the house retains much of its or... More
Barker House, 6001 Lancaster Pike (State Road 48), Wilmington, New Cas...
Significance: The Barker House is a typical vernacular frame farm house which is becoming increasingly scarce with the development of New Castle County. The ca. 1800 section of the house retains much of its or... More
Hitchens Store, State Route 62, Whaleys Crossroads, Sussex County, DE
1999 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Hitchens Store is an excellent example of a small-scale southern Delaware commercial structure with an exceptional degree of integrity. Unprocessed Field... More
Hitchens Store, State Route 62, Whaleys Crossroads, Sussex County, DE
1999 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: The Hitchens Store is an excellent example of a small-scale southern Delaware commercial structure with an exceptional degree of integrity. Unprocessed Field... More
Bucks County Bridge No. 313, Spanning Delaware Canal at Letchworth Ave...
Significance: Bucks County Bridge 313 is a single span Pratt pony truss crossing over the Delaware Canal. The bridge is temporally associated with the Delaware Canal, a resource currently listed on the Nationa... More
Bucks County Bridge No. 313, Spanning Delaware Canal at Letchworth Ave...
Significance: Bucks County Bridge 313 is a single span Pratt pony truss crossing over the Delaware Canal. The bridge is temporally associated with the Delaware Canal, a resource currently listed on the Nationa... More
Bucks County Bridge No. 313, Spanning Delaware Canal at Letchworth Ave...
Significance: Bucks County Bridge 313 is a single span Pratt pony truss crossing over the Delaware Canal. The bridge is temporally associated with the Delaware Canal, a resource currently listed on the Nationa... More
Morgan Farmhouse, Matsons Ford Road (Radnor Township), Radnor, Delawar...
Significance: This eighteenth century fieldstone farmhouse is in almost its original condition. Survey number: HABS PA-1004 Building/structure dates: ca. 1760- ca. 1770 Initial Construction
Newtown Square Meeting House, 120 North Newtown Street Road, Newtown S...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N331 Survey number: HABS PA-6233
Newtown Square Meeting House, 120 North Newtown Street Road, Newtown S...
1997 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N331 Survey number: HABS PA-6233
Thomas Maull House, 542 Pilot Town Road, Lewes, Sussex County, DE
Significance: This gambrel roofed, one-and-a-half story, frame house, built ca. 1750, has a regionally typical plan characterized by a "great room" with a winding, closed stair beside a large fireplace. Survey... More
Caleb Pusey House, 15 Race Street (Landingford Plantation), Upland, De...
Significance: Considered the earliest surviving English-built house in Pennsylvania, the Caleb Pusey House was built in the vernacular tradition of 16th and early 17th c. English models. It is also the only hom... More
Caleb Pusey House, 15 Race Street (Landingford Plantation), Upland, De...
Significance: Considered the earliest surviving English-built house in Pennsylvania, the Caleb Pusey House was built in the vernacular tradition of 16th and early 17th c. English models. It is also the only hom... More
Caleb Pusey House, 15 Race Street (Landingford Plantation), Upland, De...
Significance: Considered the earliest surviving English-built house in Pennsylvania, the Caleb Pusey House was built in the vernacular tradition of 16th and early 17th c. English models. It is also the only hom... More
Phillips-Thompson Building, 200-206 East Fourth Street, Wilmington, Ne...
Significance: Listed in the National Register of Historic Places on April 16, 1980, the Phillips-Thompson Building is an excellent example of late nineteenth-century urban commercial architecture. Built in 188... More
Townsend Water Tower, Lattomus Avenue, Townsend, New Castle County, DE
Significance: The water tower and associated building constitute a contributing structure and building of the Townsend National Register Historic District. Survey number: HAER DE-24
Corbit-Sharp House, Main Street, Odessa, New Castle County, DE
See also HALS DE-1 for additional documentation. Survey number: HABS DE-90 Building/structure dates: 1772 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 67000004
John Dickinson Mansion, Feed Barn, Kitts Hummock Road, Dover, Kent Cou...
Significance: The Dickinson Feed Barn is a reconstructed agricultural building erected as part of the Delaware Bureau of Museums' Dickinson Plantation Project. The design of the building and its construction ar... More
Allee House, Adjoining Bombay Hook Wildlife Refuge, Smyrna, Kent Count...
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Samuel Canby House, 1401 North Market Street, Wilmington, New Castle C...
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Tacony, Neighborhood is bounded by Delaware River, Cottman Avenue, Mag...
Significance: The area within the City of Philadelphia known as "Tacony" is historically significant for its mid-nineteenth-century foundation as the southern terminus of the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad, ... More
Tacony, Neighborhood is bounded by Delaware River, Cottman Avenue, Mag...
Significance: The area within the City of Philadelphia known as "Tacony" is historically significant for its mid-nineteenth-century foundation as the southern terminus of the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad, ... More
Wheel of Fortune (House), State Route 9, Leipsic, Kent County, DE
Significance: This house, built in the mid eighteenth century and representative of the area, is characterized by a rather ornamented, spare, Georgian treatment, somewhat more elaborate on the interior than the... More
Hedgelawn, Smokehouse, Saint Georges Hundred, State Route 299 , Middle...
Significance: The Hedgelawn smokehouse is an example of a well-preserved nineteenth century farm building that, at one time, was a common form of architecture in the area. Unprocessed Field note material exist... More
A. I. Du Pont Estate, Junction of State Route 141 & Rockland Road, Wil...
Significance: The A.I. du Pont estate, known as Nemours, was constructed in 1909-1910 by Alfred I. du Pont (1864-1935), great-grandson of Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, the founder of the Du Pont Company in America.... More
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Pier No. 6, Erie Lackawanna R...
Significance: The remains of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Pier No. 6: Grain Trestle are significant because of the information they provide about grain and coal loading techniques of a major ra... More
Pennsylvania & New Jersey Railroad, Delaware River Bridge, Spanning De...
Significance: Because of its location on the lower Delaware River, the bridge has a collection of extremely long and heavy spans. These include the world's heaviest center-bearing swing span, completed in 1896,... More
Pennsylvania & New Jersey Railroad, Delaware River Bridge, Spanning De...
Significance: Because of its location on the lower Delaware River, the bridge has a collection of extremely long and heavy spans. These include the world's heaviest center-bearing swing span, completed in 1896,... More
Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE
Significance: In 1847, Congress appropriated one million dollars to build the fort as the largest fort in the country to protect Philadelphia and the harbor. It was first occupied in 1861 during Civil War & us... More
Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE
Significance: In 1847, Congress appropriated one million dollars to build the fort as the largest fort in the country to protect Philadelphia and the harbor. It was first occupied in 1861 during Civil War & us... More
Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE
Significance: In 1847, Congress appropriated one million dollars to build the fort as the largest fort in the country to protect Philadelphia and the harbor. It was first occupied in 1861 during Civil War & us... More
Fort Delaware, Pea Patch Island, Delaware City, New Castle County, DE
Significance: In 1847, Congress appropriated one million dollars to build the fort as the largest fort in the country to protect Philadelphia and the harbor. It was first occupied in 1861 during Civil War & us... More
Rehoboth Avenue Bridge, State Route 1A (Rehoboth Avenue) over Lewes & ...
Significance: A notable example of a Scherzer rolling lift bascule bridge and a typical example of 1920's bridge architecture. It is the second oldest bascule bridge in Delaware, out of the eleven that are sti... More
Rehoboth Avenue Bridge, State Route 1A (Rehoboth Avenue) over Lewes & ...
Significance: A notable example of a Scherzer rolling lift bascule bridge and a typical example of 1920's bridge architecture. It is the second oldest bascule bridge in Delaware, out of the eleven that are sti... More
Rehoboth Avenue Bridge, State Route 1A (Rehoboth Avenue) over Lewes & ...
Significance: A notable example of a Scherzer rolling lift bascule bridge and a typical example of 1920's bridge architecture. It is the second oldest bascule bridge in Delaware, out of the eleven that are sti... More
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Lackawanna Av...
Significance: The Scranton yards of the D,L & W Railroad are representative of twentieth-century steam-era facilities. Many structures remain from the administration of D,L & W President William H. Truesdale, ... More
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Lackawanna Av...
Significance: The Scranton yards of the D,L & W Railroad are representative of twentieth-century steam-era facilities. Many structures remain from the administration of D,L & W President William H. Truesdale, ... More
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Lackawanna Av...
Significance: The Scranton yards of the D,L & W Railroad are representative of twentieth-century steam-era facilities. Many structures remain from the administration of D,L & W President William H. Truesdale, ... More
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Lackawanna Av...
Significance: The Scranton yards of the D,L & W Railroad are representative of twentieth-century steam-era facilities. Many structures remain from the administration of D,L & W President William H. Truesdale, ... More
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, Scranton Yards, Lackawanna Av...
Significance: The Scranton yards of the D,L & W Railroad are representative of twentieth-century steam-era facilities. Many structures remain from the administration of D,L & W President William H. Truesdale, ... More
J. H. Wilkerson & Sons Brick Works, Front Street (Road 409), Milford, ...
Significance: J.H. Wilkerson and Son was one of the last local brick works to operate in Delaware. IN 1975, all the original machinery, as well as some later additions, were still in operational positions, pro... More
J. H. Wilkerson & Sons Brick Works, Front Street (Road 409), Milford, ...
Significance: J.H. Wilkerson and Son was one of the last local brick works to operate in Delaware. IN 1975, all the original machinery, as well as some later additions, were still in operational positions, pro... More
J. H. Wilkerson & Sons Brick Works, Front Street (Road 409), Milford, ...
Significance: J.H. Wilkerson and Son was one of the last local brick works to operate in Delaware. IN 1975, all the original machinery, as well as some later additions, were still in operational positions, pro... More
Alexander Wilson Agricultural Works Complex, County Route 4, Pencader ...
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Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...
Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More
Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...
Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More
Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...
Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More
Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...
Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More
Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...
Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More
Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...
Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More
Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...
Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More
Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...
Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More
Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...
Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More
Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...
Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More
Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...
Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More
Delaware County Electric Company, Chester Station, Delaware River at S...
Significance: It is a monument to the production and marketing of electricity in early 20th-century America. Wartime demand for light and power led Philadelphia Electric to commission the plant for the company'... More
Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak Route between Maryland/Delaware & ...
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Northeast Railroad Corridor, Amtrak Route between Maryland/Delaware & ...
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Richardson & Robbins Cannery, Kings Highway, Dover, Kent County, DE
Significance: Richardson & Robbins, founded in 1856, was the first cannery in the state of Delaware, and a pioneer in the American canning industry. Specializing in the processing and canning of food delicacie... More
Richardson & Robbins Cannery, Kings Highway, Dover, Kent County, DE
Significance: Richardson & Robbins, founded in 1856, was the first cannery in the state of Delaware, and a pioneer in the American canning industry. Specializing in the processing and canning of food delicacie... More
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Freight & Rail Yard, Multiple ...
Significance: The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (DL&W) Multiple Unit Light Inspection Shop (MU Shed) contributes to the Old Main DL&W Railroad Historic District which is significant for its associatio... More
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Freight & Rail Yard, Multiple ...
Significance: The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (DL&W) Multiple Unit Light Inspection Shop (MU Shed) contributes to the Old Main DL&W Railroad Historic District which is significant for its associatio... More
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Freight & Rail Yard, Multiple ...
Significance: The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad (DL&W) Multiple Unit Light Inspection Shop (MU Shed) contributes to the Old Main DL&W Railroad Historic District which is significant for its associatio... More
Thompson's Bridge, Spanning Brandywine River on Delaware State Route 9...
Significance: Thompson's Bridge is a multiple span, highly ornamental example of a concrete encased steel girder bridge; this type commonly was constructed by the State Highway Department during the period 1925... More
Monterey, Privy, State Road 423, East of Route 13, McDonough, New Cast...
Survey number: HABS DE-207-B Building/structure dates: ca. 1847 Initial Construction
Heald Street Bridge, Spanning Conrail Railroad on South Heald Street (...
Significance: The Heald Street Bridge is a multiple span, embellished example of a concrete encased steel girder bridge. This commonly built type exemplifies the continuing expansion and improvement of the roa... More
Heald Street Bridge, Spanning Conrail Railroad on South Heald Street (...
Significance: The Heald Street Bridge is a multiple span, embellished example of a concrete encased steel girder bridge. This commonly built type exemplifies the continuing expansion and improvement of the roa... More
Heald Street Bridge, Spanning Conrail Railroad on South Heald Street (...
Significance: The Heald Street Bridge is a multiple span, embellished example of a concrete encased steel girder bridge. This commonly built type exemplifies the continuing expansion and improvement of the roa... More
Philadelphia Electric Company, Richmond Power Station, Southeast end o...
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Philadelphia Electric Company, Richmond Power Station, Southeast end o...
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Erie Railway, Delaware Division, Bridge 110.54, Spanning Lackawaxen Ri...
Significance: The former Erie Railroad bridge over the Lackawaxen River is significant as a late nineteenth-century truss structure remaining in main-line service, and as the work of a major bridge-building com... More
Erie Railway, Delaware Division, Bridge 110.54, Spanning Lackawaxen Ri...
Significance: The former Erie Railroad bridge over the Lackawaxen River is significant as a late nineteenth-century truss structure remaining in main-line service, and as the work of a major bridge-building com... More
Riverside, West Delaware Street, Burlington, Burlington County, NJ
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-260 Survey number: HABS NJ-318 Building/structure dates: 1839 Initial Construction
Riverside, West Delaware Street, Burlington, Burlington County, NJ
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-260 Survey number: HABS NJ-318 Building/structure dates: 1839 Initial Construction
Riverside, West Delaware Street, Burlington, Burlington County, NJ
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-260 Survey number: HABS NJ-318 Building/structure dates: 1839 Initial Construction
Darby Friends Meeting House, 1017 Main Street, Darby, Delaware County,...
Significance: Built in 1805, the Darby Meeting House was designed in the prototypical doubled form of the late eighteenth century. It appears unaltered from its original design and includes significant intact a... More
Harlan & Hollingsworth Company Factory, 100 South West Street, Wilming...
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Radnor Friends Meeting House, Southwest corner of Sproul & Conestoga R...
Significance: Constructed largely in 1718, Radnor is one of the oldest standing meeting houses in the Delaware Valley. Its form captures patterns of American Friends Meeting House development that are extant in... More
Radnor Friends Meeting House, Southwest corner of Sproul & Conestoga R...
Significance: Constructed largely in 1718, Radnor is one of the oldest standing meeting houses in the Delaware Valley. Its form captures patterns of American Friends Meeting House development that are extant in... More
Radnor Friends Meeting House, Southwest corner of Sproul & Conestoga R...
Significance: Constructed largely in 1718, Radnor is one of the oldest standing meeting houses in the Delaware Valley. Its form captures patterns of American Friends Meeting House development that are extant in... More
Radnor Friends Meeting House, Southwest corner of Sproul & Conestoga R...
Significance: Constructed largely in 1718, Radnor is one of the oldest standing meeting houses in the Delaware Valley. Its form captures patterns of American Friends Meeting House development that are extant in... More
Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE
Significance: The founding of the Garrett Snuff Mills represented the continuance of a 50-year tradition of Garrett enterprises on Red Clay Creek. Garrett's mills spanned the first two centuries of American in... More
Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE
Significance: The founding of the Garrett Snuff Mills represented the continuance of a 50-year tradition of Garrett enterprises on Red Clay Creek. Garrett's mills spanned the first two centuries of American in... More
Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE
Significance: The founding of the Garrett Snuff Mills represented the continuance of a 50-year tradition of Garrett enterprises on Red Clay Creek. Garrett's mills spanned the first two centuries of American in... More
Garrett Snuff Mill, Route 82, Yorklyn, New Castle County, DE
Significance: The founding of the Garrett Snuff Mills represented the continuance of a 50-year tradition of Garrett enterprises on Red Clay Creek. Garrett's mills spanned the first two centuries of American in... More
Map of the early settlements of Delaware County, Penna.
Shows landholders' names and townships (ca. 1790) as after the separation of Delaware County from Chester County in 1789. Does not show boundary lines of real-property tracts. Removed from textual publication: ... More
A plan of the island of Burlington : and a view of the city from the R...
Cadastral map showing buildings, lot lines, orchards, and gardens. Oriented with north toward the lower left. Includes index to points of interest and panoramic view at bottom of sheet. Available also through t... More
Penn's Tree, with The City & Port of Philadelphia, on the River Delawa...
Engraving by William Birch, 1755-1834. Published...by W. Birch, Springland Cot, near Bristol. In: William Birch & Son, The City of Philadelphia...as it appeared in the year 1800..., Philadelphia, 1800, no. 1. T... More
Bishop Alfred Lee of Delaware, Glass negative photograph, American Civ...
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Colton's map of the southern states. Including Maryland, Delaware, Vir...
Scale ca 1:1,520,640. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 6.6 "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1861 by J.H. Colton." Printed by Lang & Laing, N.Y. Insets: Southern part of Florida. 27 x 20 cm.-Colton'... More
Manunka Chunk from Delaware Water Gap, N.J.
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Delaware crossing, Penn. side, Penn., mammoth plate negative
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Delaware Water Gap from New Jersey
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