Mount Pleasant (Smyrna, Delaware)

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Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant (Smyrna, Delaware) is located in Delaware
Mount Pleasant (Smyrna, Delaware)
Location5 Margie Drive, Smyrna, Delaware
Coordinates39°16′38″N 75°36′27″W / 39.277260°N 75.607507°W / 39.277260; -75.607507Coordinates: 39°16′38″N 75°36′27″W / 39.277260°N 75.607507°W / 39.277260; -75.607507
Area9 acres (3.6 ha)
Builtc. 1810 (1810)
Architectural styleGeorgian / Federal
MPSDwellings of the Rural Elite in Central Delaware MPS
NRHP reference No.92001134[1]
Added to NRHPSeptember 11, 1992

Mount Pleasant, also known as the Samuel Cahoon House, is a historic home located near Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware. It built about 1810, and consists of a two-story, five-bay, gable-roofed brick main house with an interior brick chimney stack at either gable end and a one-story, gable-roofed brick kitchen wing. It is in a late Georgian / Federal vernacular style and measures 43 feet by 25 feet. Also on the property are a contributing early 19th-century smokehouse and barn.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Bernard L. Herman, Rebecca J. Siders and Max Van Balgooy (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Mount Pleasant". National Park Service. and accompanying two photos


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