Linden Hall
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Cleaver House (Linden Hall)
c. 1834. Congress and Market sts.
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(Photograph by Matthew Aungst)
The Cleaver family dominated Port Penn throughout the nineteenth century. Joseph built this Federal-style brick house, which included an office and store at right, divided from the residence by a firewall. The whole resembles two urban town houses. Cleaver maintained the adjacent wharf, practiced law, founded an insurance company, served on the board of a bank, and was local postmaster. The contents of the house are known by a room-by-room probate inventory undertaken after his death in 1858. In 1977 a new owner altered the interior for rental units and redesigned the roof of the wing, which caused the front wall of that section to collapse. In 1994 the State of Delaware bought it.
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W. Barksdale Maynard, "Cleaver House (Linden Hall)", [Port Penn, Delaware], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/DE-01-LN3.
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Buildings of Delaware, W. Barksdale Maynard. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008, 209-209.
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