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Gov. William H. Ross House

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Built
  
1859 (1859)

Opened
  
1859

Phone
  
+1 302-628-9500

Added to NRHP
  
28 October 1977

NRHP Reference #
  
77000399

Area
  
5 ha

Architectural style
  
Italianate architecture

Gov. William H. Ross House

Location
  
North of Seaford on Market St., near Seaford, Delaware

Address
  
23669 Ross Station Rd, Seaford, DE 19973, USA

Similar
  
Seaford Museum, Seaford Historical Society M, Marvel Carriage Museum, Delmarva Peninsula, Old Christ Church

Gov. William H. Ross House, also known as The Ross Mansion, is a historic home located near Seaford, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in 1859, and is a two-story, brick mansion in three main connected blocks in an "H"-shape. It is in the Italianate style and features a three-story tower in the central space. The interior retains its original plaster mouldings, its Victorian trim, doors, and original inside shutters. It was the home of Delaware Governor William H. H. Ross (1814-1887), who built the home along the railroad he helped to establish.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

The Seaford Historical Society owns the house and operates it as a pre-Civil War period historic house museum known as the Governor Ross Mansion & Plantation.

References

Gov. William H. Ross House Wikipedia