Robert Grose House

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Robert Grose House
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Location1000 Port Penn Rd., near Port Penn, Delaware
Coordinates 39°31′17″N75°35′38″W / 39.52139°N 75.59389°W / 39.52139; -75.59389
Area1 acre (0.40 ha)
MPS House and Garden in Central Delaware MPS
NRHP reference No. 01001006 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 21, 2001

Robert Grose House is a historic home located near Port Penn, New Castle County, Delaware, United States. It was built in the late-19th century, and is a two-story, two-bay, side-gable, one-room plan frame building with a 1+12-story, shed-roofed frame wing. It has an additional one-story, shed-roofed frame addition on the south elevation and a one-story, shed-roofed porch dated to the first quarter of the 20th century. The house is a typical example for a physically identifiable vernacular property type, identified as a "House and Garden". [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [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. Rebecca Sheppard, Anna Andrzejewski and Deidre McCarthy (May 2001). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Robert Grose House". National Park Service. and accompanying three photos