Max Keil Building (700 N. Market Street)

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Max Keil Building
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Max Keil Building, January 2010
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Coordinates 39°44′34″N75°32′58″W / 39.742650°N 75.549405°W / 39.742650; -75.549405
Area0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built1938 (1938)
ArchitectBallinger, H. M.
Architectural styleModerne
Part of Downtown Wilmington Commercial Historic District (ID10000079 [1] )
MPS Market Street MRA (64000105)
NRHP reference No. 85000153 [2]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJanuary 30, 1985
Designated CPMarch 24, 2017

Max Keil Building is a historic commercial building located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1875, and modified in the Art Moderne/Art Deco style in 1938. It is a three-story, single-bay commercial building with a rectangular plan built of wall bearing brick construction. The front facade features large display windows on the first floor and an austere, peach-colored terra-cotta wall with a large rectangular display window at the second and third floors. [3] In 2010, it was occupied by an outlet of Rainbow Shops.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [2]

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