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Tours given Friday & Saturday at 10, 12 & 2 Rockwood is an English-style country estate and museum located in Wilmington , Delaware . Built between 1851 and 1854 by banker Joseph Shipley, Rockwood is an excellent example of Rural Gothic Revival Architecture . [ 2 ]
Lower Market Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It encompasses 132 contributing buildings the central business district of Wilmington. It includes attached commercial and commercial/residential structures dating from the mid-18th to the early-20th century.
This is a list of properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wilmington, Delaware: [1]. For reasons of size, the listings in New Castle County are divided into three lists: those in Wilmington, other listings in northern New Castle County (north of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal), and those in southern New Castle County (south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal).
Due to the prosperity Wilmington enjoyed during the war, city merchants and manufacturers expanded Wilmington's residential boundaries westward in the form of large homes along tree-lined streets. This movement was spurred by the first horsecar line, which was initiated in 1864 along Delaware Avenue. Map of Wilmington, Delaware, 1874
It encompasses 44 buildings in the city's downtown, most on North Market Street between 6th and 9th avenues. The district was the commercial center of the city between roughly 1870 and 1968, and contains an architecturally distinguished collection of late 19th- and early 20th-century architecture.
Delaware Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It encompasses 180 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure developed in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
West 9th Street Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.It encompasses 28 contributing buildings in a commercial area of Wilmington developed in the early 20th century.
The Baynard Boulevard Historic District is a national historic district located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.It encompasses 77 contributing buildings with examples of Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Queen Anne architecture.