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Grier House

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Built
  
1890 (1890)

NRHP Reference #
  
83001410

Area
  
1 ha

MPS
  
Milford MRA

Opened
  
1890

Added to NRHP
  
7 January 1983

Grier House

Location
  
301 Lakeview Ave., Milford, Delaware

Architectural styles
  
Queen Anne style architecture, Neoclassical architecture

Similar
  
Powel House, Delmarva Peninsula, Delaware Art Museum

Grier House, also known as Rogers Funderal Home, is a historic home located at Milford, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in 1890, and is a two-story, five bay, center hall, frame dwelling in the Queen Anne style. It has hipped roof is pierced with dormers that have rounded window cornice heads. It features a projecting center bay that includes the entrance block, a Palladian window, and a two-story portico with slender, paired, fluted Ionic order columns. A porch extends a round the side and on the other side is a porte cochere. Between 1921 and 1923 the owner, Dr. Frank L. Grier, remodelled the house. The house was used as a funeral home.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

References

Grier House Wikipedia