Cornucopia (Middletown, Delaware)

Cornucopia
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	1377 Bethel Church Road in Pencader Hundred, nearMiddletown, Delaware
Coordinates	39°31′33″N75°46′23″W / 39.525742°N 75.773122°W / 39.525742; -75.773122
Area	50 acres (20 ha)
Built	c. 1845 (1845)
Architectural style	Greek Revival
NRHP reference No.	87001517 [1]
Added to NRHP	September 8, 1987

Cornucopia, also known as the John and Mary Price Farm, is a historic home and farm located near Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. The house was built about 1845, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, five-bay L-shaped frame dwelling with a gable roof in a vernacular Greek Revival style. It has a 1+1⁄2-story wing and features a tetra-style verandah on brick piers. Also on the property are the contributing meat/dairy house, crib barn, hay barn and cow barn attached by an implement shed, three poultry sheds, and an implement shed with a shop and wagon shed. ^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. ^[1]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Hubert F. Jicha, III (December 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Cornucopia". National Park Service. and accompanying 10 photos