Buildings of Delaware

by W. Barksdale Maynard, Pauline Saliga (Editor)

Overview

The latest volume in the Society of Architectural Historians' prestigious Buildings of the United States series, Buildings of Delaware is the first book to document the state's architectural history from all periods. Extensively illustrated with photographs and maps, and supplemented by a glossary and bibliography, the volume covers buildings of many styles, types, and materials, from grand mansions to vernacular structures, and from urban to rural settings. The noted architectural historian W. Barksdale Maynard spent much of 2002 through 2004 canvassing the rich cultural heritage of the state and investigating its relationship to the built environment—from an ancient Dutch dyke of 1660 to a cutting-edge cable-stay bridge recently completed, from colonial smokehouses in the countryside of Kent County to a rare, intact, International Style 1940s elementary school in the city of Wilmington. Among the architectural forms discussed are industrial and agricultural buildings and structures that characterize the state's rivers, canals, and shoreline, from gristmills to bridges and lighthouses. Major cities such as Newark and Wilmington are considered at length, with entries on homes, churches, schools, and government buildings, and the state's natural landscape, parks, and such renowned gardens as Winterthur are also described. Buildings of Delaware will provide scholars with valuable information on the architecture of the state, and will spark the imagination of general readers and local historians as well.

A volume in the Buildings of the United States series of the Society of Architectural Historians

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813928722
Publisher:	University of Virginia Press
Publication date:	07/17/2009
Series:	Buildings of the United States
Pages:	376
Sales rank:	1,076,945
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

W. Barksdale Maynard, Lecturer in the art history departments at Johns Hopkins and Princeton, is the author of Walden Pond: A History, Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850, and Woodrow Wilson: The Battle of Princeton and the Making of an American President.

Table of Contents

How to Use This Book     ix
Foreword     xi
Acknowledgments     xiii
Introduction     1
Woodland Indians     3
Swedes, Finns, and Dutch     5
Colonial (and Colonial Revival)     7
Nineteenth Century     13
Architects     16
Du Pont Estates     19
Transportation     21
Suburbs     24
Historic Preservation     26
Brandywine Hundred     32
Claymont     33
Arden     37
Brandywine Hundred South of Arden     41
Vicinity of Brandywine Creek and along Concord Pike     45
Christiana Hundred     55
Northern Christiana Hundred     55
Centreville     56
Greenville Vicinity     64
South of DE 141     70
Elsmere Vicinity     75
Newport     76
North along Red Clay Creek     77
Ashland and Vicinity     79
Wilmington     82
Christina Riverfront and East Side     86
Market Street Corridor     93
West Center City     111
Brandywine Village and Park     117
Northeast Wilmington     126
West Wilmington     129
Northwest Wilmington     135
New Castle Hundred     146
North of New Castle     146
New Castle     149
South of New Castle     164
Mill Creek and White Clay Creek Hundreds     165
Hockessin     165
Down Red Clay Creek     166
Along Limestone Road (DE 7)     168
Stanton Vicinity     169
Christiana     170
Newark and White Clay Creek Valley     173
Upper White Clay Creek Valley     175
Lower White Clay Creek Valley     176
Newark     178
West of the University of Delaware     188
South of Newark Center     190
Pencader and Red Lion Hundreds     192
Glasgow     196
Along the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal     197
St. Georges and Vicinity     200
Delaware City     203
Lower New Castle County     207
Port Penn     208
Odessa     210
Middletown Vicinity     215
Middletown     216
Townsend Vicinity      221
Kent County     224
Smyrna     225
Along DE 9     231
Camden     234
Southeast of Dover     236
Frederica     240
Harrington     242
Milford     243
Dover     246
Eastern Sussex County     258
Milton     260
South of Ellendale     260
Georgetown     261
East of Georgetown     265
Lewes     265
Rehoboth Beach     276
West of Rehoboth Beach     279
South along the Inland Bays and Oceanfront     279
Western Sussex County     284
Bridgeville     286
West of Bridgeville     287
Seaford     288
Woodland and Bethel     293
Laurel     294
Southwest of Millsboro     297
Glossary     299
Bibliography     311
Illustration Credits     321
Index     323