Achmester

Achmester
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Achmester in 1983
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Location	617 Marl Pit Road in St Georges Hundred, near Middletown, Delaware
Coordinates	39°28′51″N 75°42′35″W / 39.48083°N 75.70976°W / 39.48083; -75.70976Coordinates: 39°28′51″N 75°42′35″W / 39.48083°N 75.70976°W / 39.48083; -75.70976
Area	210 acres (85 ha)
Built	1829 (1829)
Built by	MacFarlane, Robert & John
Architectural style	Center Passage Plan
NRHP reference No.	79000626[1]
Added to NRHP	December 28, 1979

Achmester is a historic home and national historic district located near Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It encompasses four contributing buildings and two contributing structures. Achmester was built in 1829, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, single pile "Peach Mansion." It consists of a five bay frame main block with a five bay gable end addition, and five bay rear service ell. It has a gable roof with dormers and sits on a stone foundation. The façade features simple box cornices and dormers decorated at a later date with Gothic Revival sawnwork trim, pendents, and vergeboards. The contributing outbuildings consist of a cow barn, shed, milk house, granary, and smokehouse. It was built by Richard Mansfield, a founder of Middletown Academy.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.^[1]

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  House in 2016

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• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. DE-221-A, "Achmester, Main House, Road 429, Route 896 vicinity, Armstrong vicinity, New Castle County, DE", 2 photos, 3 data pages
• HABS No. DE-221-B, "Achmester, Log Granary", 2 photos, 2 measured drawings, 2 data pages, 1 photo caption page
• HABS No. DE-221-C, "Achmester, Frame Granary", 5 photos, 2 data pages, 1 photo caption page
• HABS No. DE-221-D, "Achmester, Smokehouse", 3 measured drawings, 2 data pages