Delaware - Kent County - Historic Districts
Kent County Delaware (Historic Districts) has 19 places on the National Register of Historic Places including 2 places of National significance and 10 places of Statewide significance. Significant places include Byfield Historic District, Lower St. Jones Neck Historic District, Camden Historic District, Coombe Historic District and Delaware Boundary Markers.

The famous person John Dickinson is associated with one of more of the Kent County historic places.

Some of the country's most noteable architects helped create the Kent County places including Charles Mason, Jeremiah Dixon, Bradford Thomas B., Alonzo Reynolds, Thomas Collins and Gaudreau and Gaudreau. Prominent architectural styles found in Kent Country are Italianate, Greek Revival and Queen Anne.

Bannister Hall and Baynard House (added 1973 - - #73000503)
Also known as Fox Hall
S of Smyrna off DE 300 , Smyrna
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Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Collins,Thomas
Architectural Style:
Other
Area of Significance:
Agriculture, Architecture
Period of Significance:
1850-1874, 1750-1799
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Domestic
Current Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Byfield Historic District (added 1979 - - #79003232)
Address Restricted , Kitts Humock
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Historic Significance:
Information Potential
Area of Significance:
Historic - Non-Aboriginal
Cultural Affiliation:
American Colonial
Period of Significance:
1850-1874, 1825-1849, 1800-1824, 1750-1799
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Unknown
Camden Historic District (added 1974 - - #74000595)
Also known as Picadilly,Mifflin's Crossroads
Both sides of Camden-Wyoming Ave. and Main St. , Camden
Smallbones, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Unknown
Architectural Style:
Georgian, Greek Revival, Italianate
Area of Significance:
Architecture, Community Planning And Development, Social History, Religion
Period of Significance:
1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1825-1849, 1800-1824, 1750-1799
Owner:
Local, Private
Historic Function:
Domestic, Religion
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Domestic, Religion
Current Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Coombe Historic District (added 1982 - - #82002313)
Also known as See Also:Hughes Early Man Complex
W of Felton on DE 12 and SR 281 , Felton
Linda Roy Walls, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Unknown
Architectural Style:
Other
Area of Significance:
Architecture
Period of Significance:
1875-1899, 1750-1799
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Domestic
Current Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Delaware Boundary Markers (added 1975 - - #75002101)
Also known as Transpeninsular Line;Mason-Dixon Line;Tangent Line;The Arc;T
State boundary lines between DE-MD/DE-PA , Not Applicable
Cropbot, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Dixon,Jeremiah, Mason,Charles
Architectural Style:
No Style Listed
Area of Significance:
Politics/Government, Engineering
Period of Significance:
1825-1849, 1750-1799
Owner:
State
Historic Function:
Recreation And Culture
Historic Sub-function:
Monument/Marker
Current Function:
Recreation And Culture
Current Sub-function:
Monument/Marker
Dover Green Historic District (added 1977 - - #77000383)
Also known as Dover, Brother's Portion;See Also:Christ Church;Bradford-Loo
Bounded by Governors Ave., North, South, and East Sts. , Dover
GB fan, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Reynolds,Alonzo
Architectural Style:
Colonial Revival, Georgian, Italianate
Area of Significance:
Politics/Government, Social History, Architecture
Period of Significance:
1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1825-1849, 1800-1824, 1750-1799, 1700-1749
Owner:
Local, Private
Historic Function:
Commerce/Trade, Domestic, Government
Historic Sub-function:
Business, Government Office, Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Commerce/Trade, Domestic, Government
Current Sub-function:
Business, Government Office, Single Dwelling
Duck Creek Village (added 1972 - - #72000282)
Also known as Salisbury
DE 65, between Duck Creek and Green's Branch , Smyrna
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Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Unknown
Architectural Style:
No Style Listed
Area of Significance:
Architecture, Industry, Social History
Period of Significance:
1850-1874
Owner:
State
Historic Function:
Domestic, Industry/Processing/Extraction
Historic Sub-function:
Manufacturing Facility, Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Recreation And Culture, Work In Progress
Current Sub-function:
Museum
Felton Historic District (added 1988 - - #87002433)
Also known as See Also: Felton Railroad Station
Roughly bounded by North, Walnut, Main, and Niles Sts. , Felton
RevelationDirect, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Multiple
Architectural Style:
Other, Queen Anne
Area of Significance:
Architecture
Period of Significance:
1925-1949, 1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874
Owner:
State, Local, Private
Historic Function:
Commerce/Trade, Domestic, Government, Social, Transportation
Historic Sub-function:
Business, Secondary Structure, Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Commerce/Trade, Domestic, Government, Social, Transportation
Current Sub-function:
Business, Secondary Structure, Single Dwelling
Frederica Historic District (added 1977 - - #77000385)
Also known as Johnnycake Landing
Market, Front, and David Sts. , Frederica
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Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Unknown
Architectural Style:
Greek Revival, Italianate, Federal
Area of Significance:
Architecture, Commerce
Period of Significance:
1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1825-1849, 1800-1824, 1750-1799
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Commerce/Trade, Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling, Specialty Store
Current Function:
Commerce/Trade, Domestic
Current Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Kenton Historic District (added 1983 - - #83001396)
Commerce St. , Kenton
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Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Unknown
Architectural Style:
Queen Anne
Area of Significance:
Agriculture, Architecture
Period of Significance:
1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1825-1849, 1800-1824, 1750-1799
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Commerce/Trade, Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Domestic
Current Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Little Creek Hundred Rural Historic District (added 1984 - - #84000286)
Also known as See also;Macomb Farm Complex;Octagonal Schoolhouse;Hughes-Wi
DE 9 , Little Creek
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Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Multiple
Architectural Style:
Italianate
Area of Significance:
Architecture, Agriculture
Period of Significance:
1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1825-1849, 1800-1824, 1750-1799
Owner:
State, Private
Historic Function:
Agriculture/Subsistence, Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Agricultural Fields, Agricultural Outbuildings, Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Agriculture/Subsistence, Domestic
Current Sub-function:
Agricultural Fields, Agricultural Outbuildings, Single Dwelling
Lower St. Jones Neck Historic District (added 1979 - - #79003233)
Also known as See also:Kingston-upon-Hull;Dickenson Mansion
Address Restricted , Kitts Humock
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Historic Significance:
Information Potential, Person
Historic Person:
Dickinson,John
Significant Year:
1750, 1850
Area of Significance:
Politics/Government, Historic - Non-Aboriginal
Cultural Affiliation:
Non-Aboriginal
Period of Significance:
1825-1849, 1800-1824, 1750-1799
Owner:
State, Private
Historic Function:
Agriculture/Subsistence, Domestic, Landscape
Historic Sub-function:
Agricultural Fields, Single Dwelling, Underwater
Current Function:
Agriculture/Subsistence, Domestic, Landscape
Current Sub-function:
Agricultural Fields, Single Dwelling, Underwater
North Milford Historic District (added 1983 - - #83001357)
Also known as PH0507474,PH0001279
Roughly bounded by Mispillion River, Silver Lake, N. Walnut and NW 3rd Sts. , Milford
Smallbones, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architectural Style:
Greek Revival, Federal, Mixed (More Than 2 Styles From Different Periods)
Area of Significance:
Community Planning And Development, Architecture
Period of Significance:
1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1825-1849, 1800-1824, 1750-1799
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Commerce/Trade, Domestic, Industry/Processing/Extraction, Religion
Historic Sub-function:
Religious Structure, Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Commerce/Trade, Domestic, Domestic, Religion
Current Sub-function:
Business, Multiple Dwelling, Religious Structure, Single Dwelling
Raymond Neck Historic District (added 1982 - - #82001026)
N of Leipsic between Leipsic River and CR 85 , Leipsic
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Historic Significance:
Person, Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architectural Style:
No Style Listed
Historic Person:
Multiple
Significant Year:
1867, 1820, 1830
Area of Significance:
Black, Architecture, Social History
Period of Significance:
1850-1874, 1825-1849, 1800-1824
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Agriculture/Subsistence, Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Agricultural Fields, Agricultural Outbuildings, Secondary Structure, Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Domestic, Industry/Processing/Extraction
Current Sub-function:
Single Dwelling
Smyrna Historic District (added 1980 - - #80000930)
DE 6 and U.S. 13 , Smyrna
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Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Unknown
Architectural Style:
Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate
Area of Significance:
Architecture, Commerce
Period of Significance:
1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874, 1825-1849, 1800-1824, 1750-1799
Owner:
Local, Private
Historic Function:
Commerce/Trade, Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Business, Single Dwelling, Specialty Store
Current Function:
Commerce/Trade, Domestic
Current Sub-function:
Business, Single Dwelling, Specialty Store
St. Joseph's Industrial School (added 2002 - - #02001491)
Also known as CRS no. K-5054
355 W. Duck Creek Rd. , Clayton
Elemenel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Historic Significance:
Architecture/Engineering, Event
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Gaudreau and Gaudreau
Architectural Style:
Colonial Revival, Italianate
Area of Significance:
Architecture, Black, Education
Cultural Affiliation:
African-American
Period of Significance:
1950-1974, 1925-1949, 1900-1924, 1875-1899
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Religion
Historic Sub-function:
Church Related Residence, Religious Structure
Current Function:
Religion, Social
Current Sub-function:
Civic, Religious Structure
Victorian Dover Historic District (added 1979 - - #79000622)
Roughly bounded by Silver Lake, St. Jones River, North and Queen Sts. , Dover
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Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Bradford,Rev. Thomas B.
Architectural Style:
Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival
Area of Significance:
Politics/Government, Architecture, Community Planning And Development, Commerce, Industry
Cultural Affiliation:
19th Century American
Period of Significance:
1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874
Owner:
Local, Private
Historic Function:
Commerce/Trade, Domestic
Historic Sub-function:
Business, Multiple Dwelling, Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Commerce/Trade, Domestic
Current Sub-function:
Business, Multiple Dwelling, Single Dwelling
Wilkerson, J. H., & Son Brickworks (added 1978 - - #78000892)
Off SR 409 , Milford
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Historic Significance:
Event, Information Potential
Area of Significance:
Historic - Non-Aboriginal, Industry
Cultural Affiliation:
Industrial American
Period of Significance:
1900-1924
Owner:
Private
Historic Function:
Industry/Processing/Extraction
Historic Sub-function:
Manufacturing Facility
Current Function:
Vacant/Not In Use
Wyoming Historic District (added 1987 - - #86003037)
Also known as See Also:Wyoming Railroad Station
Roughly bounded by Front St., Rodney Ave., Southern Blvd., and Mechanic St. , Wyoming
Powerstripp, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Historic Significance:
Event, Architecture/Engineering
Architect, builder, or engineer:
Unknown
Architectural Style:
Classical Revival, Queen Anne, Bungalow/Craftsman
Area of Significance:
Transportation, Architecture
Period of Significance:
1925-1949, 1900-1924, 1875-1899, 1850-1874
Owner:
Local, Private
Historic Function:
Agriculture/Subsistence, Domestic, Transportation
Historic Sub-function:
Processing, Rail-Related, Secondary Structure, Single Dwelling
Current Function:
Domestic, Transportation
Current Sub-function:
Rail-Related, Secondary Structure, Single Dwelling
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