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North Cass Street Houses

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Late 19th century. N. Cass St., between W. Main and W. Lake sts.
  • North Cass Street Houses (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)
  • North Cass Street Houses (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)
  • North Cass Street Houses (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)
  • North Cass Street Houses (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)
  • North Cass Street Houses (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)
  • North Cass Street Houses (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)
  • North Cass Street Houses (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)
  • North Cass Street Houses (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)
  • North Cass Street Houses (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)
  • (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)
  • (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)
  • (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)
  • (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)

The most fashionable street of Middletown's flourishing Victorian era boasts a series of ostentatious homes. They include the Queen Anne-style house (1890s) at 12 N. Cass Street, with generous porch and fish-scale-shingled upper walls, which was erected by a lumberyard owner. Former Governor Benjamin T. Biggs, farmer and railroad director, built the three-story Italianate house at Number 210 in 1876, with one of the first central heating systems in the state.

Writing Credits

Author: 
W. Barksdale Maynard
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Citation

W. Barksdale Maynard, "North Cass Street Houses", [Middletown, Delaware], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/DE-01-LN15.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Delaware

Buildings of Delaware, W. Barksdale Maynard. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008, 217-217.

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