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Woodside (Mt. Pleasant, Delaware)

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Built
  
c. 1860 (1860)

Opened
  
1860

Added to NRHP
  
13 September 1985

NRHP Reference #
  
85002119

Area
  
2 ha

Woodside (Mt. Pleasant, Delaware)

Location
  
1358 Choptank Road, Mt. Pleasant, Delaware

MPS
  
Rebuilding St. Georges Hundred 1850-1880 TR

Architectural styles
  
Italianate architecture, Greek Revival architecture, Federal architecture

Woodside is a historic home located at Mt. Pleasant, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1860, and is a two- to three-story, five-bay, "L"-shaped brick dwelling with a center passage plan with a full width front porch. It features hipped roof with widely overhanging eaves and elaborate brackets in the Italianate style. Also on the property are a contributing stable, granary, cattle/dairy barn, equipment shed and water tower. It was built by Henry Clayton, whose great-grandfather was Governor Joshua Clayton, president and governor of Delaware.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

References

Woodside (Mt. Pleasant, Delaware) Wikipedia