Browsing by Author "McCarthy, Deidre C."
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Item Buttonwood(Center for Historic Architecture and Engineering, 1996) McCarthy, Deidre C.; Siders, Rebecca J.; Herman, Bernard L.; Darsie, Julie C.; Melson, Dawn E.; Nelson, Louis P.; Ames, David L.Buttonwood is a significant example of the type of rural dwelling associated with residents of the town of New Castle who owned both urban and rural residences. Buttonwood also exhibits a unique floor plan with two sets of double parlors as well as fully integrated service facilities located in the basement. Previously thought to date to the late eighteenth century, architectural evidence now shows that Buttonwood was built in the 1830s. Buttonwood clearly exhibits architectural significance in addition to its traditional significance as a house associated with James Booth, Sr., a Delaware legislator and Supreme Court Justice.Item The House and Garden in Central Delaware, 1780-1930+/-(2010-02-26T19:44:50Z) Sheppard, Rebecca J.; Andrzejewski, Anna; McCarthy, Deidre C.In response to demographic pressures, changing agricultural practices, and the influence of agricultural reform writers, central Delaware farmers began to develop new strategies for dealing with married agricultural laborers and their families during the nineteenth century. They constructed dwellings specifically designed to house these laborers and established lease-labor arrangements that governed both labor obligations and housing rental. Known as a "house and garden," these buildings typically took the form of one finished room and a rough kitchen shed on the ground floor, with a winder stair leading to a second room under the roof. Characterized by extremely plain finish on walls and architectural elements, and built tobe easily portable, the dwellings sat on a small plot of ground suitable for a garden and a few animals. Variations in the physical form of the house and garden dwelling include orientation to the road (either gable or elevation), height (1 1/2 or 2 full stories), the number of bays on the front elevation (usually two or three), and the position of a shed (gable end, rear elevation, or none).Item Ramsey House(1995) Herman, Bernard L.; McCarthy, Deidre C.; Nelson, Lewis P.; Siders, Rebecca J.; Ranzetta, Kirk E.The Ramsey House is located just north of Ramsey road (County Road 224) and east of Brandywine Creek in Brandywine Hundred, New Castle County. The dwelling stands as a two-story, rubble stone dwelling reflecting two major periods of nineteenth-century construction activity and a third modern remodeling episode. Overall, the house is in sound condition with the greatest degree of historic architectural integrity associated with the first construction phase in the first quarter of the nineteenth century.Item Threatened Resources Documented In Maryland, 1995-96(Center for Historic Architecture and Engineering, 1996) McCarthy, Deidre C.; Siders, Rebecca J.