Spring Garden (Laurel, Delaware)

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Spring Garden
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LocationNortheast of Laurel on Delaware Ave.
Coordinates 38°33′52″N75°34′2″W / 38.56444°N 75.56722°W / 38.56444; -75.56722
Area1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built1782 (1782)
Architectural styleGothic, Georgian, Federal
NRHP reference No. 82002362 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 26, 1982

Spring Garden, also known as the Lewis Homestead, is a historic home located near Laurel, Sussex County, Delaware. It is an L-shaped, brick-and-frame dwelling built in three sections over a 100-year period. The large brick main core was built about 1782, and is a 2+12-story, double-pile, center-hall plan structure with a three-bay facade in the Federal style. The interior has Georgian style details. It has a summer kitchen addition built about 1860, and it is a 1+12-story, single-pile structure added to the rear of the main core. About 1880, a large, two-story, frame addition was built onto the west gable end of the original brick section. It is in the Victorian Gothic style. [2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. [1]

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  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Richard B. Carter and Phyllis A. Hastings (1981). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Spring Garden". and Accompanying 13 photos