Granite Mansion

Granite Mansion

Granite Mansion property, December 2010
Location 292 W. Main St., Newark, Delaware
Coordinates 39°41′11″N 75°45′50″W / 39.686336°N 75.763793°W / 39.686336; -75.763793Coordinates: 39°41′11″N 75°45′50″W / 39.686336°N 75.763793°W / 39.686336; -75.763793
Area 0.3 acres (0.12 ha)
Built 1844 (1844)
Architect Johnson, Isaac; Multiple
Architectural style Greek Revival
MPS Newark MRA
NRHP Reference # 83001394[1]
Added to NRHP February 24, 1983

Granite Mansion was a historic home located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1844, and was a three-story, three-bay, cubic stuccoed stone building with a flat roof in the Greek Revival style. It had a rear kitchen wing. The house was renovated in 1924 in the Neoclassical style, to add a two-tiered Corinthian porch on the east elevation and a Doric Porte-Cochere on the west elevation. Also on the property were a small stuccoed spring house and one-and-a-half-story frame and stucco building dated to 1924.[2] The house has been demolished and the property occupied by the First Presbyterian Church of Newark.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Valerie Cesna and Betsy Bahr (December 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Granite Mansion" (PDF). National Park Service and accompanying three photos. Retrieved 2010-04-20. External link in |publisher= (help)
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