Built c. 1850 (1850) NRHP Reference # 82001030 Added to NRHP 25 October 1982 | Built by Johnson Area 8,000 m² | |
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Location Southwest of Lewes on U.S. Route 9, near Lewes, Delaware |
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Norwood House is a historic home located near Lewes, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built about 1850, and is two-story, three-bay, single-pile, frame house. It has a rectangular plan and sits on a brick foundation. The house is sheathed in weatherboard with cornerboards and has a shingled gable roof. A single story section extends down the entire length of the rear of the house and there is an earlier one-story section located on the north rear. Also on the property is a contributing privy. It is a virtually unaltered survivor of Belltown, a 19th-century "free colored" community.
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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
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