Springer Farm (Newark, Delaware)

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Springer Farm
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Frame straw shed addition to the barn at the Springer Farm.
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Location6621 Limestone Rd., Hockessin, Delaware
Coordinates 39°47′09″N75°43′28″W / 39.785733°N 75.724313°W / 39.785733; -75.724313 Coordinates: 39°47′09″N75°43′28″W / 39.785733°N 75.724313°W / 39.785733; -75.724313
Area19.3 acres (7.8 ha)
Builtc. 1798
Architectural styleBi-level barn
MPS Agricultural Buildings and Complexes in Mill Creek Hundred, 1800--1840 TR
NRHP reference No. 86003103 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 13, 1986

The Springer Farm is a historic farm located at Hockessin, New Castle County, Delaware. The property includes four contributing buildings. They are a stone house (c. 1798), a stone and frame bank barn (c. 1820), a stone spring house, and a braced frame corn crib, both dated to the 19th century. The house is a two-story, gable-roofed, fieldstone structure on a coursed fieldstone foundation. [2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Hubert F. Jicha, III and Valerie Cesna (May 1986). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Springer Farm". National Park Service. and accompanying two photos