Okolona (Middletown, Delaware)

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Location 1321 Shallcross Lake Road in St. Georges Hundred, near Middletown, Delaware
Coordinates 39°28′35″N75°41′31″W / 39.47627°N 75.6919°W / 39.47627; -75.6919 Coordinates: 39°28′35″N75°41′31″W / 39.47627°N 75.6919°W / 39.47627; -75.6919
Area 10 acres (4.0 ha)
Built 1866 (1866)
Architectural style Italianate
MPS Rebuilding St. Georges Hundred 1850-1880 TR
NRHP reference # 85003527 [1]
Added to NRHP November 19, 1985

Okolona, also known as the R. T. Cochran House, is a historic home located near Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1866, and is a three-story, Italianate-style dwelling. It sits on a stone foundation and has a low hipped roof. It features an open tetra-style porch or verandah finished with open sawnwork trim and squared columns, and cornice brackets. [2]

Middletown, Delaware Town in Delaware, United States

Middletown is a town in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. According to the 2010 Census, the population of the town is 18,871.

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.

Italianate architecture 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture

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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1]

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