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William Stevens House (Kenton, Delaware)

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MPS
  
Kenton Hundred MRA

Area
  
1 ha

Added to NRHP
  
29 August 1983

NRHP Reference #
  
83001406

Architectural style
  
Italianate architecture

William Stevens House (Kenton, Delaware)

Location
  
Delaware Route 6, Kenton, Delaware

Built
  
c. 1811, c. 1860 (1860)

William Stevens House, also known as Peach Mansion, is a historic home located at Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. The house was built about 1860, and is a three-story, five bay, single pile frame dwelling in the Italianate style. It has a low hipped roof and a projecting box cornice with decorative brackets. The original house, built about 1811, forms the gable-roofed, three-bay, two-story, rear wing. Also on the property is a contributing 19th century springhouse.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It was demolished in a controlled burn in February 2001.

References

William Stevens House (Kenton, Delaware) Wikipedia