Mount Cuba Historic District

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Mount Cuba Historic District
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Location SR 261 and DE 82, Mount Cuba, Delaware
Coordinates 39°47′22″N75°38′26″W / 39.78944°N 75.64056°W / 39.78944; -75.64056 Coordinates: 39°47′22″N75°38′26″W / 39.78944°N 75.64056°W / 39.78944; -75.64056
Area 24 acres (9.7 ha)
Built 1816 (1816)
Architectural style Gothic
NRHP reference # 79000627 [1]
Added to NRHP December 19, 1979

Mount Cuba Historic District is a national historic district at Mount Cuba, New Castle County, Delaware. It encompasses twelve contributing buildings, one contributing site, and four contributing structures on seven properties that lie along County Road 261. Notable buildings include the Speakman's grist mill, saw mill, and adjoining stone house; and a number of frame dwellings in a variety of popular mid to late 19th-century architectural styles including Gothic Revival. The contributing site is the Mt. Cuba picnic grounds. [2]

Mount Cuba, Delaware Unincorporated community in Delaware, United States

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New Castle County, Delaware County in the United States

New Castle County is the northernmost of the three counties of the U.S. state of Delaware. As of the 2010 census, the population was 538,479, making it the most populous county in Delaware, with just under 60% of the state's population of 897,936 in the same census. The county seat is Wilmington.

Gothic Revival architecture Architectural movement

Gothic Revival is an architectural movement popular in the Western world that began in the late 1740s in England. Its popularity grew rapidly in the early 19th century, when increasingly serious and learned admirers of neo-Gothic styles sought to revive medieval Gothic architecture, in contrast to the neoclassical styles prevalent at the time. Gothic Revival draws features from the original Gothic style, including decorative patterns, finials, lancet windows, hood moulds and label stops.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1]

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