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The Center for Historic Architecture and Design(CHAD) is a research and public service center located in the College of Human Services, Education, and Public Policy. CHAD addresses issues related to historic preservation through an interdisciplinary program of research and public service which focuses on historic architecture and landscapes, design issues of the built environment and material culture, documentation of historic properties, computer applications to documentation, research on the physical properties of cultural and historic materials, historic preservation planning and policy at national, state, and local levels, and advocacy for historic resources.
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Item Sussex County(Center for Historic Architecture and Engineering, 1970) Siders, Rebecca J.; Chase, Susan M.Item S. Holton House(1977) Witty, Anne; Amisson, Elizabeth; Copp, Barbara; Dluzak, Catherine M.; Frederick, Barbara; Center for Historic Architecture and DesignThe. Holton Farm is located in cultivated farmland (including the entire 165 acre parce of the mid-nineteenth century farmstead) on the east side of Rt. 435 approximately 2 miles northwest of Middletown. The house and outbuildings are set back about one-hundred yards from the road within a yard of dense ornamental plantings. The nominated parcel includes five acres containing all the outbuildings, the house, grounds, and the lane leading in from Rt. 435.Item Captain Thomas Mendenhall House and Captain Thomas Mendenhall Tenant Houses, 217-219 E. Front Street(1980) Herman, Bernard L.; Ames, David L.The Captain Thomas Mendenhall House was erected in the last decade of the eighteenth century on the northwest corner of Front and Walnut Streets, facing what was then Wilmington's commercial waterfront along the Christina River.Item Duck Creek Mill(1981) Herman, Bernard L.; Ames, David L.The Duck Creek Mill is located in the Duck Creek Village and the Lindens Historic District on the east side of Delaware Route 65 and the south side of Duck Creek in Duck Creek Hundred, Kent County, Delaware.Item Phillips-Thompson Building(1981) Herman, Bernard L.; Ames, David L.Listed in the national register of Historic Places on April 16, 1980, the Phillips-Thompson Building is an excellent example of late nineteenth-century urban commercial architecture. Built in 1886 and only superficially modified since 1891, the Phillip-Thompson Building has always housed a variety of tenants ranging from street level commission merchants to upper story renters and meeting halls. Erected at the hub of the late nineteenthcentury market district, which ran along East Fourth Street between King and Walnut Streets, the Phillips-Thompson Building is the last standing structure in the area which describes that period of Wilmington's commercial history.Item Alexander Wilson Agricultural Works Complex(1983) College of Urban Affairs and Public PolicyItem Mechanics and Functions of a Smoke House(1983) Quinn, Judith A.Item Choptank(1984) Lush, RichardItem Historic Context for Aids to Navigation in Delaware(1984) Center for Historic Architecture and Design; Ames, David L.; Bashman, Leslie D.; Siders (Sheppard), Rebecca J.Aids to navigation are an important overall property type in relation to the priorities for historic theme, geographic zone, chronological period, and historic contexts established in the Delaware -Plan. Fifteen specific preservation goals are recommended for nine aids to navigation property types as a function of ownership, level and extent of expected significance, and specific property type characteristics. Ranked priorities are suggested for the fifteen overall goals (independent of property types) and for each property type within the group of property types to which each overall goal applies. Also, overall relative priorities are suggested for each combination of goal and property type.Item Belleview(1984) Jicha, III., Hubert F.; Bensinger, TrishItem S. Holton Farm(1984) Witty, AnneThe Holton Farm is located in cultivated farmland (including the entire 165 acre parcel of the mid 19th-century farmstead) on the east side of route 435 approximately 2 miles northwest of Middletown. The house and outbuildings are set back about one-hundred yards from the road within a yard of dense ornamental plantings. The nominated parcel includes five acres containing all the outbuildings, the house, grounds, and the lane leading in from route 435.Item Fairview(1984) Diethorn, KarrieItem Maple Grove Farm(1984) Center for Historic Architecture and DesignMaple Grove Farm is located on the south side of route 299 .8 miles east of Middletown. It is set in an environment of cultivated fields and a modern court of farm buildings. The house is set off the south side of the road up a tree lined lane approximatley one mile back from the public thoroughfare. A parcel of one acre including the house and a small stone meathouse compose the nomination. The surrounding farm complex, of recent vintage, is excluded from the nominated property.Item Cleaver House(1984) Catts, WadeItem Woodside(1984) Bensinger, TrishItem Typology of Delaware Farms, 1850(1984) Michel, H. JohnThis essay is the first formal report of an ongoing project on the rural culture of Delaware. This project has two closely related purposes. First, it is intended to model the agricultural economy of the State in the period, 1850-1950. Second, it seeks to describe that economy in as precise detail as possible at selected times during that period.Item Riverside (W.B. Diehl)(1984) Ward, HenryItem Okolana ( R.T. Cochran House)(1984) Shimp, Jane; Macintire, WilliamItem W.H. Robinson House(1984) Ames, David L.; Herman, Bernard L.Item George Brady Farm Manager's Dwelling(1984) Bensinger, Trish; Jicha, III., Hubert F.