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c. 1792 brick section. c. 1880 frame addition. 10905 Delaware Ave.
  • (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)

This house exhibits an L-shaped fusion of Georgian-style and Gothic Revival sections. The original brick Georgian part, with its substantial double-pile, center-passage plan, is a rare survival in the county. Paneling was once marbelized but stripped to natural wood by twentieth-century owners. An early-nineteenth-century barn is notable. Pioneering Massachusetts Institute of Technology chemical engineer Warren K. Lewis (b. 1882) grew up here.

Writing Credits

Author: 
W. Barksdale Maynard
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Citation

W. Barksdale Maynard, "Spring Garden", [Laurel, Delaware], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/DE-01-WS21.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Delaware

Buildings of Delaware, W. Barksdale Maynard. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008, 295-295.

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