Teddy's Tavern

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Teddy's Tavern
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LocationEastern side of U.S. Route 113 (Du Pont Boulevard), 0.6 miles north of its junction with Delaware Route 16 in Cedar Creek Hundred, Ellendale, Delaware
Coordinates 38°48′53″N75°26′19″W / 38.81472°N 75.43861°W / 38.81472; -75.43861
Area1.5 acres (0.61 ha)
Built1923 (1923), 1937
Architectural styleMission/spanish Revival
NRHP reference No. 91000911 [1]
Added to NRHPJuly 22, 1991

Teddy's Tavern, originally called the Blue Hen Garage, is a historic tavern located at Ellendale, Sussex County, Delaware, USA. It was built about 1923, as a service station catering to motorists on the newly constructed Du Pont Highway. It was converted into a roadside tavern in 1937. It is a one-story, polychrome brick building with a low-pitched gable roof, low parapet, and exposed rafter ends in a Mission/Spanish Revival style. It has a flat-roofed "porch" supported by four massive brick and concrete conical columns. The interior consists of a package store, dining areas and a labyrinth of service rooms. It is one of the few surviving service stations or roadside taverns remaining from the pre-1940 era in Delaware. [2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [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. Steven H. Moffson (April 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Teddy's Tavern". and Accompanying 15 photos