Kenton is a town in Kent County, Delaware, United States. It is part of the Dover metropolitan statistical area. The population was 215 in 2020.
Aspendale is a historic house and plantation property on Delaware Route 300 west of Kenton, Kent County, Delaware, United States. The main house, built 1771–73, has been under a single family's ownership since construction and is a rare, well-preserved example of a Georgian "Quaker plan" house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.
The James Williams House is a historic home and farm complex in Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. The house was built in 1848 and is a two-story, five-bay, center-hall plan brick dwelling with Greek Revival details. It has a rear wing. The front facade features a three-bay porch with chamfered posts and sawn decorative brackets dated to the 1880s. Also on the property are a contributing barn, granary, and outhouse.
The Kenton Historic District is a national historic district located at Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. It encompasses 28 contributing buildings in the crossroads community of Kenton. Except for a few houses that date from the early settlement of the crossroads at the end of the 18th century, most of the buildings in the district date from the last half of the 19th century and more specifically from the 1870s and 1880s. The oldest buildings are the Wilds-Prettyman House and the Wilds-Cooper House. Other notable buildings include the Kenton Methodist Church (1876), Brick Lodge, Thomas Lamb House, Guessford House, and Queen Anne style "Spindle and Spool" House.
Thomas Attix House is a historic home and farm complex located at Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. The house was built in about 1880, and is a two-story, three-bay, frame dwelling with a rear wing in a Gothic Revival / Queen Anne style. Contributing outbuildings include a brick milk house, sawn-plank bull pen, frame barn, cattle sheds, and machine shed. They date to the 19th and early-20th centuries.
J. F. Betz House is a historic home located at Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. The house was built about 1875, and is a two-story, three-bay, double pile dwelling with Greek Revival / Gothic Revival / Queen Anne influences. It has a gable roof with cornice, pierced by a central cross gable. The property includes a contributing 19th century granary and barn.
Benjamin Blackiston House, also known as Deer Park, is a historic home located at Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. It was built about 1760, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, three-bay, vernacular frame dwelling. It was originally built on the Penn plan, but later enlarged to six bays.
William Stevens House, also known as Peach Mansion, is a historic home located at Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. The house was erected about 1860, and is a three-story, five bay, single pile frame dwelling in the Italianate style. It has a low hipped roof and a projecting box cornice with decorative brackets. The original house, built about 1811, forms the gable-roofed, three-bay, two-story, rear wing. Also on the property is a contributing 19th century springhouse.
Clark–Pratt House is a historic home located at Kenton, Kent County, Delaware, USA. The house was built about 1880 and is a two-story, five-bay, center hall frame dwelling in a combined Italianate / Gothic Revival style. It is sided in weatherboard and has a gable roof with cross-gable. Also on the property are a contributing summer kitchen, privy and small barn/carriage house.
T. H. Denny House, also known as "Mount Pinder," is a historic home and farm located at Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. The house dates to the last quarter of the 18th century, and is a two-story, five bay, center hall plan brick dwelling. It has a gable roof and the front facade features an entrance portico added in the mid-19th century. It has a rear wing also added in the mid-19th century. Also on the property are a contributing barn, stable, and machine shed.
N. C. Downs House is a historic house located along Road 141 in Kenton, Kent County, Delaware.
Robert Hill House, also known as "Alley," was a historic home located at Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. The house dated to the last decade of the 18th century, and was a two-story, three-bay, side hall plan brick dwelling in the Federal style. It had a gable roof and the front facade features a simple entrance portico. The rear wing was extended in the late-19th century with the addition of a frame wing.
Alfred L. Hudson House is a historic home and farm located at Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. The house dates to about 1880, and is a two-story, five bay, center hall plan frame dwelling in a blended Queen Anne / Gothic Revival style. It has a cross gable roof and a bracketed heavy roof cornice. Also on the property are a contributing large gambrel-roofed barn, 2+1⁄2-story granary, chicken house, a milk house, machine shed and garage.
Thomas Lamb Farm, also known as "Brick House Farm", is a historic home located at Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. The house dates to the second quarter of the 18th-century, and is a two-story, three-bay, single pile brick dwelling. It has a hall-and-parlor plan. Attached is a 1+1⁄2-story, three-bay brick kitchen wing with a porch.
Thomas Lamb House, also known as "My Home," is a historic home located at Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. The house dates to about 1855, and is a two-story, three-bay, side hall plan frame dwelling in the Greek Revival style. It has a long and low rear wing with a porch. Both sections have gable roofs. Also on the property are a contributing barn with stable, a frame milk house, and a privy.
Green Mansion House is a historic home located at Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. The house dates to the first quarter of the 19th century, and consists of two sections. The frame section is a two-story, three-bay, center hall plan structure. Attached to it is a two-story, two-bay stuccoed brick wing. The house was built as part of Philip Lewis' plan for the development of Kenton.
Hoffecker-Lockwood House, also known as "Bellevue," was a historic home located at Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. The house dated to the mid-18th century, and was a two-story, three-bay, hall-and-parlor plan brick dwelling. Attached was a low, two-story, west gable brick wing built part of the original structure and served as a service wing. The interior featured Georgian-style paneling. Also on the property were a contributing kitchen, smokehouse, barn and stable.
Jefferson Lewis House is a historic home located at Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. The house was built about 1800, and is a two-story, three-bay, center hall plan stuccoed brick dwelling with a gable roof. Attached is a rear frame wing. The front facade features a porch, added in the late-19th century. Also on the property are three two-story barns, and a mix of late-19th and early-20th-century milk houses, corn cribs, machine sheds and chicken houses.
Delaplaine McDaniel House was a historic home and farm located at Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. The house was built about 1880, and was a two-story, three-bay, center hall plan stuccoed brick dwelling with a gable roof. Attached to each gable end were one-story flat-roofed wings. The front facade features en elaborate entrance reflective of a mix of architectural styles. Also previously on the property were a frame tenant house with attached summer kitchen, servant's quarters dwelling, a large two-story barn, and a variety of agricultural outbuildings. It was owned by Philadelphia merchant Delaplaine McDaniel, 1817-1885. The historic house and farm were demolished sometime between 2017 and April 2020 to expand the adjacent crop field.
Wright-Carry House is a historic home located at Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. The house was built about 1880, and is a two-story, three-bay, center hall plan frame structure with a two-story rear wing. Both sections have gable roof and the house exhibits Queen Anne style design elements. Also on the property are a contributing summer kitchen, privy, and barn or carriage house.
