Mid-Atlantic Historic Buildings and Landscapes Survey
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CHAD also maintains an extensive collection of research and documentary materials for more than 1,000 historic sites and structures in the Mid-Atlantic region. The collection includes measured drawings, photographs, and narrative histories, as well as other resources for building research and a study collection of architectural materials. The collection is open for research and reference to students, the preservation community, and the general public.
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Item "Both Ornamental and Useful": The Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital(Center for Historic Architecture and Design, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 1990-02) Bourque, Monique; Herman, Bernard; Siders, Rebecca; Zeigler, NancyThe documentation of the Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital was funded by a gift from the Edward Hand Medical Heritage Foundation to the Delaware Valley Threatened Buildings Survey at the University of Delaware. The research and documentation was conducted by a team from the Center for Historic Architecture and Engineering, College of Urban Affairs and Public Policy, University of Delaware. Fieldwork, measured drawings, and architectural analysis were completed during the summer of 1989 by Dr. Bernard L. Herman, Nancy Zeigler, and Gabrielle Lanier. Large-format photographs for the Historic American Buildings Survey documentation were taken by Dr. David L. Ames. Research into the daily activities, conditions of life, and general policies of the almshouse was conducted by Nancy Zeigler and Monique Bourque in the fall of 1989. We are grateful to Dr. David Wiley, Dr. William Atlee, and the members of the Edward Hand Medical Heritage Foundation for their support, encouragement, and participation in the documentation of the Lancaster County Almshouse and Hospital. We hope this report will lead to the preservation, restoration, and interpretation of this historically and architecturally significant structure.Item Augustine Beach Hotel(2013-04-23) Sheppard, Rebecca J.; Morrissey, Catherine; Blair, Melissa; Bonnano, Katie; Engel, Andrew; Keeley, Laura; Nichols, Jennifer; Pouch, TimThe Augustine Beach Hotel was documented by the Mid-Atlantic Historic Buildings and Landscapes Survey crew in the spring of 2012 as part of the Center for Historic Architecture and Design’s ongoing documentation of historic resources in New Castle County, Delaware. The project includes a written report, seven AutoCAD drawings of the hotel as well as Delaware Cultural Resource Survey (CRS) forms 12 and 13 which contain the photo log and photos for the submitted report.Item Refuge-Weldin Farm(2010-03-21T17:45:34Z) Center for Historic Architecture and DesignItem 1601 and 1605 Naamans Road(2010-03-05T16:53:26Z) Center for Historic Architecture and DesignThese two houses are significant as examples of the early twentieth century practice of subdividing parcels at the edge of farms to provide housing for family members or for speculative building. 1605 was built between 1927 and 1930, and 1601 was constructed circa 1940, as part of a series of lots broken out by William Hanby and his wife Daisy.Item Staats-Dukes Farm(2010-02-26T20:24:35Z) van den Hurk, JeroenThe Dukes Farm is located north of Cedar Swamp Road, approximately one mile east of Taylors Bridge in Blackbird Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. The 420 acre farm is bounded by the estuaries of the Blackbird Creek to the west and north and by those of the Delaware River to the east. The farm complex lies at the end of an unpaved lane, circa 1500 feet north of Cedar Swamp Road. The complex consists of a farmhouse and five outbuilding: a modern garage, a boat/machine shed with an attached kennel, a granarylcorn crib, a modern machine shed, and a dairy barn with an attached sheeplmachine shed.Item Polk-Atkinson House(2005) Sheppard, Rebecca J.; Benge, Rebecca; Boyd, Heather; Johnson, Melanie; Miller, Lori; Walsh, ConnieThe Polk-Atkinson House is located on the south side of Fieldsboro Road, approximately 0.5 miles west of its intersection with Taylors Bridge Landing Road (State Route 9), in Appoquinimink Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware. The house is all that remains of the farm complex that once supported a roughly 300-acre farming operation. The outbuildings were removed in the fall of 2005, prior to the documentation process. The house sits on a lot within the subdivision of Odessa National, which is currently under construction.Item High Hook Farm(2008-11) Center for Historic Architecture and DesignItem Threatened Buildings Documented in Delaware, 1999-2000:John T. Simmons Farmstead(1999-10) Paulus, Emily; Sheppard, Rebecca J.; Dobbs, Kelli W.; Maclean, Sharon; Cathey, Jennifer A.; Puleo, Kevin; Killinger, Sarah; Breithaupt, Lindsey; Richards, Amy; Brossman, Romy; Everett, Jeffrey; Kershaw, Christie; Johnson, AmyThe John T. Simmons Farmstead is locally significant in terms of mid-to-late nineteenth century agriculture and architecture. The dwelling provides an excellent example of the mid-nineteenth century rebuilding of rural Delaware when agricultural reforms coincided with construction of new dwellings and outbuildings, and also with expansion and improvement of existing buildings. The agricultural outbuildings in the complex, particularly the drive-through crib/granary and dairy barn, contribute to the significance of the property as architectural expressions of the evolution of agriculture in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Item Threatened Buildings Documented in Delaware, 1999-2000: Joseph Crawford House(2000-03) Paulus, Emily; Sheppard, Rebecca J.; Dobbs, Kelli W.; Maclean, Sharon; Cathey, Jennifer A.; Puleo, Kevin; Killinger, Sarah; Breithaupt, Lindsey; Richards, Amy; Brossman, Romy; Everett, Jeffrey; Kershaw, Christie; Johnson, AmyConstructed ca. 1855, the Joseph Crawford House is an unusual survivor as a log dwelling that retains a high degree of its architectural integrity. The Period I section is entirely intact and features a hall-chamber plan with the interior walls completely exposed on both the first and second floors.Item Threatened Buildings Documented in Delaware, 1999-2000: Mansion Farm Tenement(1999-11) Paulus, Emily; Sheppard, Rebecca J.; Dobbs, Kelli W.; Maclean, Sharon; Cathey, Jennifer A.; Puleo, Kevin; Killinger, Sarah; Breithaupt, Lindsey; Richards, Amy; Brossman, Romy; Everett, Jeffrey; Kershaw, Christie; Johnson, AmyConstructed in the mid nineteenth-century the Mansion Farm Tenement was a rare survivor of an unusual building type, the double agricultural tenement.Item Threatened Buildings Documented in Delaware, 1999-2000: Cherbourg Round Barn(1999-10) Paulus, Emily; Sheppard, Rebecca J.; Dobbs, Kelli W.; Maclean, Sharon; Cathey, Jennifer A.; Puleo, Kevin; Killinger, Sarah; Breithaupt, Lindsey; Richards, Amy; Brossman, Romy; Everett, Jeffrey; Kershaw, Christie; Johnson, AmyOne of the most architecturally distinctive agricultural outbuildings in Delaware, the Cherbourg Round Barn is significant on several accounts. The only barn of its type in the state, it demonstrates an innovative approach to the problems associated with the shelter and nourishment of cattle. The circular plan maximized the ground floor space and facilitated routine cleaning of the living and feeding area. The unusual roof permitted the storage of large amounts of hay in proximity to the feeding area below, while the adjacent silos provided convenient storage for additional food supplements.Item Threatened Buildings Documented in Delaware, 1999-2000: Hayes-Campbell Tenant House(1999-10) Paulus, Emily; Sheppard, Rebecca J.; Dobbs, Kelli W.; Maclean, Sharon; Cathey, Jennifer A.; Puleo, Kevin; Killinger, Sarah; Breithaupt, Lindsey; Richards, Amy; Brossman, Romy; Everett, Jeffrey; Kershaw, Christie; Johnson, AmyThe Hayes-Campbell Tenant House, which dates to the third quarter of the nineteenth century, is significant as one of the few remnants of Bombay Hook’s nineteenth century agricultural landscape. Secondly, it is significant for its framing system, which combines elements of heavy braced-frame construction with lighter balloon-frame construction.Item Threatened Buildings Documented in Delaware, 1999-2000: Woodland Beach Schoolhouse(1999-10) Paulus, Emily; Sheppard, Rebecca J.; Dobbs, Kelli W.; Maclean, Sharon; Cathey, Jennifer A.; Puleo, Kevin; Killinger, Sarah; Breithaupt, Lindsey; Richards, Amy; Brossman, Romy; Everett, Jeffrey; Kershaw, Christie; Johnson, AmyConstructed in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the Woodland Beach Schoolhouse is significant as one of very few one-room schoolhouses surviving intact in Delaware.Item Threatened Buildings Documented in Delaware, 1999-2000: John Barber House(1999-10) Maclean, Sharon; Cathey, Jennifer A.; Puleo, Kevin; Paulus, Emily; Sheppard, Rebecca J.; Dobbs, Kelli W.; Killinger, Sarah; Breithaupt, Lindsey; Richards, Amy; Brossman, Romy; Everett, Jeffrey; Kershaw, Christie; Johnson, AmyThe John Barber House is significant both as a log dwelling dating to the second quarter of the nineteenth century and for its association with the practice of tenant farming common in Kent County.Item Threatened Buildings Documented in Delaware, 1999-2000: Charles I. du Pont Tenant Farm(1999-11) Paulus, Emily; Sheppard, Rebecca J.; Dobbs, Kelli W.; Maclean, Sharon; Cathey, Jennifer A.; Puleo, Kevin; Killinger, Sarah; Breithaupt, Lindsey; Richards, Amy; Brossman, Romy; Everett, Jeffrey; Kershaw, Christie; Johnson, AmyThe Charles I. du Pont Tenant Farm House stands today as an example of a finely detailed, mid-to-late eighteenth century rural dwelling. Although architectural evidence suggests that a member of Kent County's rural elite built the dwelling, the farm served from an early date as a tenant property. Outbuildings on the farm date primarily from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when the du Pont family owned the property. The farm complex provides an excellent example of the use of agricultural tenancy as a strategy for generating income, particularly in its connection with the dairy industry.Item Threatened Buildings Documented in Delaware, 1999-2000: Jehu M. Reed House(2000-02) Paulus, Emily; Sheppard, Rebecca J.; Dobbs, Kelli W.; Maclean, Sharon; Cathey, Jennifer A.; Puleo, Kevin; Killinger, Sarah; Breithaupt, Lindsey; Richards, Amy; Brossman, Romy; Everett, Jeffrey; Kershaw, Christie; Johnson, AmyThe Jehu M. Reed House is significant on several accounts. 1 For more than 200 years, from 1685 through 1912, the property maintained an association with the Reed family, a well-known and prominent Central Delaware family. Constructed in 1771, the house was expanded in 1868 to both accommodate and express the lifestyle of Jehu M. Reed, an agricultural pioneer and benefactor whose advances and techniques in farming helped foster Delaware's peach and apple industry. Additionally, the house stands as an exemplary breed of rural Mid-Atlantic architecture that melds the original fabric of a Georgian structure with an Italianate/Victorian plantation house.Item Threatened Buildings Documented in Delaware, 1998-1999(1999) van den Hurk, Jeroen; Sheppard, Rebecca J.; Dobbs, Kelli W.; Adams, Cynthia; Cathey, Jennifer A.; Derry, Diane; Herman, Bernard L.; Klee, Jeff; Knock, PatriciaBetween September 1998 and June 1999, CHAD students and staff documented eight properties located throughout the state, including a kitchen/slave quarter, a nineteenth century urban commercial block, several farm dwellings, a Methodist church, and a log stable. Sites were documented in all three counties in Delaware, in both urban and rural settings.Item Huber Farm(2008-11) Center for Historic Architecture and DesignItem Threatened Resources Documented in Delaware, 1989-1990: Crossan House(1990-08) Herman, Bernard L.; Lanier, Gabrielle M.; Cesna, Valerie; Center for Historic Architecture and EngineeringThe Crossan House is an important example of the domestic architecture built by New Castle County's rural elite population of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It is significant because it retains nearly all of its original interior finish, including mantels, baseboards, and chair rails.Item 4127 Concord Pike(2009-11-10T17:02:21Z) Center for Historic Architecture and Design