Max Keil Building (712 N. Market Street)

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Max Keil Building
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Max Keil Building, January 2010
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Location712 N. Market St., Wilmington, Delaware
Coordinates 39°44′35″N75°32′57″W / 39.742928°N 75.549219°W / 39.742928; -75.549219
Area0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built1938 (1938)
Architectural styleModerne, Art Deco
MPS Market Street MRA
NRHP reference No. 85000152 [1]
Added to NRHPJanuary 30, 1985

Max Keil Building is a historic commercial building located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1850, 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 a large curved glass display window on the first floor and an austere, peach-colored terra-cotta wall with a large rectangular window of structural glass block at the second and third floors. [2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [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. Alan Hawk (December 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Max Keil Building". and Accompanying photo