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Valley Run

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1966–1969, with additions, Rahenkamp, Sachs and Associates, site planners, with D'Anastasio and Lisiewski, architects. Valley Run Dr. and vicinity, near Pennsylvania line
  • Valley Run (W. Barksdale Maynard)
  • (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)

As 1960s sprawl filled Brandywine Hundred, some architects called for a new kind of community, a mixed-density development that would combine single-family homes with less expensive town houses and apartments and leave open space. New Castle County zoning did not allow this approach, so Valley Run Building Corporation and its Philadelphia planners spent three years convincing the government to give them large-scale variances. Weatherboarded apartments form long units that undulate with the topography.

Writing Credits

Author: 
W. Barksdale Maynard
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Citation

W. Barksdale Maynard, "Valley Run", [Wilmington, Delaware], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/DE-01-BR6.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Delaware

Buildings of Delaware, W. Barksdale Maynard. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008, 36-36.

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