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Frink Center for Wildlife, Tri-State Bird Rescue Center

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1989–1992, Mary Staikos for Staikos Associates Architects. End of Possum Hollow Rd. at Middle Run Natural Area, 2.5 miles northeast of Newark

Only rarely did pell-mell farm abandonment in New Castle County lead to adaptive reuse of agricultural buildings instead of destruction. This converted farmstead lies at the end of a little-used country road that now terminates at a bucolic county park. An old barn was converted into a bird hospital. Outside, wooden stairs lead up and around an old concrete silo to an elevated deck with a view down onto a warren of tin-roofed wooden aviaries, some on stilts. The naturalistic landscaping preserves the old-farm feeling.

Writing Credits

Author: 
W. Barksdale Maynard
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What's Nearby

Office Building (Louviers Building)
Nine Foot Road (Smith Mill Road)
White Clay Creek Presbyterian Church
John England House and Mill
The Mill at White Clay (Joseph Dean and Son)

Citation

W. Barksdale Maynard, "Frink Center for Wildlife, Tri-State Bird Rescue Center", [Newark, Delaware], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/DE-01-NK4.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Delaware

Buildings of Delaware, W. Barksdale Maynard. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008, 176-176.

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