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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).
Wawaset Park is a planned community national historic district located on the western edge of the City of Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.The area was formerly the grounds of Schuetzen Park, a horse racing and later auto racing track and fairgrounds.
Wilmington Manor is located at (39.6867795, -75.5843695). [4] It is just northwest of the city of New Castle and south of the City of Wilmington. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.6 square miles (4.1 km 2), all land.
Gibraltar (previously known as the Hugh Rodney Sharp Mansion), located at 2505 Pennsylvania Avenue in Wilmington, Delaware, is a country estate home dating from c. 1844 that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It takes its name from the Rock of Gibraltar, alluding to the high rocky outcrop on which the house was built. It is ...
The Howard R. Young Correctional Institution, colloquially known as Gander Hill Prison, is a state prison for male inmates in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, owned and operated by the Delaware Department of Correction. [1] The facility first opened in 1982, and houses 1500 inmates.
William Penn High School, also known as William Penn or simply Penn, is a four-year comprehensive, coeducational public high school located in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, United States.
Tower Hill was founded in 1919. [1] [5] [better source needed] Its main building was designed by Wilmington architects Brown & Whiteside and completed in 1920. [6]The school is situated at the high point of Wilmington's neighborhood, The Highlands, where the dominant landmark is Rockford Tower, erected in 1901 to control the city's water supply.
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.