Mount Pleasant (Smyrna, Delaware)

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Mount Pleasant
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Location 5 Margie Drive, Smyrna, Delaware
Coordinates 39°16′38″N75°36′27″W / 39.277260°N 75.607507°W / 39.277260; -75.607507 Coordinates: 39°16′38″N75°36′27″W / 39.277260°N 75.607507°W / 39.277260; -75.607507
Area 9 acres (3.6 ha)
Built c. 1810 (1810)
Architectural style Georgian / Federal
MPS Dwellings of the Rural Elite in Central Delaware MPS
NRHP reference # 92001134 [1]
Added to NRHP September 11, 1992

Mount Pleasant, also known as the Samuel Cahoon House, is a historic home located near Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware. It built about 1810, and consists of a two-story, five-bay, gable-roofed brick main house with an interior brick chimney stack at either gable end and a one-story, gable-roofed brick kitchen wing. It is in a late Georgian / Federal vernacular style and measures 43 feet by 25 feet. Also on the property are a contributing early 19th-century smokehouse and barn. [2]

Smyrna, Delaware Town in Delaware, United States

Smyrna is a town in Kent and New Castle counties in the U.S. state of Delaware. It is part of the Dover, Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. According to the Census Bureau, as of 2010, the population of the town is 10,023.

Kent County, Delaware County in the United States

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Georgian architecture set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840

Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1714 and 1830. It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover—George I, George II, George III, and George IV—who reigned in continuous succession from August 1714 to June 1830. The style was revived in the late 19th century in the United States as Colonial Revival architecture and in the early 20th century in Great Britain as Neo-Georgian architecture; in both it is also called Georgian Revival architecture. In the United States the term "Georgian" is generally used to describe all buildings from the period, regardless of style; in Britain it is generally restricted to buildings that are "architectural in intention", and have stylistic characteristics that are typical of the period, though that covers a wide range.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service.
  2. Bernard L. Herman, Rebecca J. Siders and Max Van Balgooy (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Mount Pleasant". National Park Service. and accompanying two photos