Springer-Cranston House

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Springer-Cranston House
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Location1015 Stanton Rd., Mill Creek Hundred, Marshallton, Delaware
Coordinates 39°43′33″N75°38′18″W / 39.72592°N 75.63836°W / 39.72592; -75.63836
Area6 acres (2.4 ha)
Architectural styleVernacular Georgian
NRHP reference No. 94001177 [1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 30, 1994

Springer-Cranston House is a historic home located at Marshallton, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in the late-18th century, and is a 2+12-story, four-bay, coursed rubble stone dwelling with a two-story stuccoed stone service wing. It has a Georgian interior floor plan and gable roof. The house is constructed of local Brandywine granite. It was originally a one-story, stone dwelling roughly 24 feet by 18 feet, and subsequently enlarged and modified during the first half of the 19th century. The interior was modernized in the 1940s. [2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. [1]

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View from the southwest

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Bernard Herman (April 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Springer-Cranston House". National Park Service. and accompanying eight photos