Spring_Garden_(Laurel,_Delaware)

Spring Garden (Laurel, Delaware)

Spring Garden (Laurel, Delaware)

Historic house in Delaware, United States

Spring Garden, also known as the Lewis Homestead, is a historic home located near Laurel, Sussex County, Delaware. It is an L-shaped, brick-and-frame dwelling built in three sections over a 100-year period. The large brick main core was built about 1782, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, double-pile, center-hall plan structure with a three-bay facade in the Federal style. The interior has Georgian style details. It has a summer kitchen addition built about 1860, and it is a 1+1⁄2-story, single-pile structure added to the rear of the main core. About 1880, a large, two-story, frame addition was built onto the west gable end of the original brick section. It is in the Victorian Gothic style.[2]

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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. [2]
    Richard B. Carter and Phyllis A. Hastings (1981). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Spring Garden". and Accompanying 13 photos


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