Ashton Historic District (Port Penn, Delaware)

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Ashton Historic District
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John Ashton House, Ashton Historic District, December 2011
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LocationNorth of Port Penn on Thormton Rd., near Port Penn, Delaware
Coordinates 39°31′52″N75°35′03″W / 39.53111°N 75.58417°W / 39.53111; -75.58417 Coordinates: 39°31′52″N75°35′03″W / 39.53111°N 75.58417°W / 39.53111; -75.58417
Area170 acres (69 ha)
Built1700 (1700)
NRHP reference No. 78000903 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 15, 1978

Ashton Historic District is a national historic district located near Port Penn, New Castle County, Delaware, United States. It encompasses six contributing buildings associated with an original settler and his immediate descendants on early land grant in St. Georges Hundred. The three structures associated with the early occupation are the Robert Ashton House, the Joseph Ashton House, and the John Ashton House. The Robert Ashton House, probably the earliest of the group, is a frame, five-bay, single-pile, gambrel-roofed building with shed-roofed dormers. The Joseph Ashton House, consists of an early-18th-century two-story, three-bay, hall-and-parlor-plan brick structure with a late-18th or early-19th century brick wing. The John Ashton House, consists of a brick, early-18th century two-story, three-bay, hall-and-parlor-plan house with a frame wing. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Cara L. Wise (April 1978). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Ashton Historic District". National Park Service. and accompanying 10 photos