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Old Post Office (Kirkwood, Delaware)

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Built
  
c. 1870 (1870)

NRHP Reference #
  
82002330

Function
  
Post office

MPS
  
Red Lion Hundred MRA

Area
  
6,500 m²

Added to NRHP
  
8 April 1982

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Location
  
3616 Kirkwood St. Georges Rd., Kirkwood, Delaware

Architectural style
  
Second Empire architecture in Europe

Similar
  
Delmarva Peninsula, Delaware Art Museum, Brandywine Zoo

Old Post Office is a historic home and post office building located at Kirkwood, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1870, and is a two-story, five bay, frame double house with a mansard roof in the Second Empire style. The roof has decorative slate and the front facade features a full-width porch supported by five chamfered, wooden posts. Part of the house was once occupied by a post office and store.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

References

Old Post Office (Kirkwood, Delaware) Wikipedia