Old Post Office (Kirkwood, Delaware)

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Old Post Office
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Location3616 Kirkwood St. Georges Rd.,
Kirkwood, Delaware
Coordinates 39°34′16″N75°41′47″W / 39.57100°N 75.69644°W / 39.57100; -75.69644
Area1.6 acres (0.65 ha)
Builtc. 1870 (1870)
Architectural styleSecond Empire, Mansard
MPS Red Lion Hundred MRA
NRHP reference No. 82002330 [1]
Added to NRHPApril 8, 1982

Old Post Office is a historic home and post office building located at Kirkwood, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1870, and is a two-story, five-bay, frame double house with a mansard roof in the Second Empire style. The roof has decorative slate and the front facade features a full-width porch supported by five chamfered, wooden posts. Part of the house was once occupied by a post office and store. [2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [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. Richard T. Jett and Gretchen Fitting (July 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Old Post Office". National Park Service. and accompanying photo