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Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church and Parsonage

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Location
  
1009 Philadelphia Pike

NRHP Reference #
  
98001097

Area
  
4,900 m²

Nearest city
  
Wilmington

Built
  
1838

Opened
  
1838

Added to NRHP
  
28 August 1998

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Architectural style
  
Queen Anne style architecture

Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church and Parsonage is a historic Methodist Episcopal church and parsonage located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1838, and is a one-story, stuccoed stone structure with a gable roof. It measures approximately 50 feet by 40 feet, and has a gable-roofed vestibule added in 1893. Adjacent to the church is the parsonage built in 1894. It is a 2 12-story, four-bay L-shaped frame dwelling in the Queen Anne style. It sits on a fieldstone foundation and features gray-green fish-scale shingles. Adjacent is the contributing church cemetery with burials dating back to 1841.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It is now part of Bellevue State Park, a Delaware state park.

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