Maple Grove Farm (Middletown, Delaware)

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Maple Grove Farm
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LocationDelaware Route 299, Middletown, Delaware
Coordinates 39°26′51″N75°42′07″W / 39.447441°N 75.701928°W / 39.447441; -75.701928
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
Builtc. 1840 (1840)
Architectural styleLate Victorian, Georgian, Federal
MPS Rebuilding St. Georges Hundred 1850-1880 TR
NRHP reference No. 85002106 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 13, 1985

Maple Grove Farm was a historic home located at Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware, USA. It was built about 1840, and was a 2+12-story, five-by-two bay, frame Georgian house with a two-story, frame gabled wing to the east and a two-story kitchen wing to the rear. It featured a full width front porch supported by Doric order columns. Also on the property was a small stone, stuccoed structure which appears to have been a meathouse. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 [1] and demolished between 1992 and 2002.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Trish Bensinger and Bert Jicha (May 1985). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Maple Grove Farm". National Park Service. and accompanying two photos