Gov. Benjamin T. Biggs Farm | |
 Benjamin T. Biggs farmhouse | |
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| Location | 1196 Choptank Road in Pencader Hundred, near Middletown, Delaware |
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| Coordinates | 39°30′54″N75°44′46″W / 39.51500°N 75.74611°W |
| Area | 4 acres (1.6 ha) |
| Built | 1846 |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival, Vernacular Greek Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 87001508 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 11, 1987 |
Gov. Benjamin T. Biggs Farm is a historic home and farm located near Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware.
It was built in 1846, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, five-bay L-shaped brick dwelling with a gable roof in a vernacular Greek Revival style. It has a 1+1⁄2-story gable roofed brick wing. Also on the property are a smokehouse, former implement shed attached to a barn, implement shed, a tall and narrow cupola topped building, and an implement shed with attached dairy. Also on the property are the remains of a formal garden, including a large rock parenthesized by remnants of two semi-circular lines of boxwoods.
It was the home of Governor Benjamin T. Biggs (1821–1893), who served as U.S. Representative and 46th Governor of Delaware. [2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. [1]
Mount Airy, also known as Grove Farm, is a historic home located at Sharpsburg, Washington County, Maryland, United States. It is a 2+1⁄2-story Flemish bond brick house, built about 1821 with elements of the Federal and Greek Revival styles. Also on the property are a probable 1820s one-story gable-roofed brick structure that has been extensively altered over time, a late-19th-century frame barn with metal roof ventilators, a 2-story frame tenant house built about 1900, and a mid-20th-century cinder block animal shed. It was used as a hospital for Confederate and Union soldiers following the Battle of Antietam. On October 3, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln and General George McClellan visited Mount Airy, an event recorded photographically by Alexander Gardner.
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Maston House, also known as Cannon's Savannah, is a historic home located near Seaford, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in 1727 and enlarged in 1733. It is a 1+1⁄2-story, single pile, brick structure with a gable roof in the "Resurrection Manor" style. As such, it resembles Maryland rather than Delaware houses. It has shed-roof dormers. The interior has wide floor boards and a narrow enclosed staircase winding around the chimney. It is one of Sussex County's oldest brick structures. A small frame addition from the 1970s is attached to the northern end.
White Hall, also known as the William Cann Tenant House and Andrew Elliason Tenant House, is a historic home located at Bear, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in three phases during the 19th century between about 1830 and 1860, and is a two-story, five-bay frame dwelling with a gable roof. It has a 2+1⁄2-story rear wing that creates a "T" configuration. It is in a vernacular Greek Revival / Italianate-style. Also on the property are a contributing frame dairy barn, a concrete block milk house, and a frame implement shed, all dated to the 1930s.
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