Burton Hardware Store Explained

Burton Hardware Store
Coordinates:	38.6414°N -75.6108°W
Built:	c.
Added:	April 20, 1978
Refnum:	78000927

Burton Hardware Store, also known as Burton Brothers Hardware Store, was a historic commercial building located at Seaford, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built about 1900, and was a two-story, roughly square, frame structure. It had a low-pitched roof and was partially sheathed in sheet metal imitations of rusticated cement blocks. The front facade featured an elaborate pressed metal cornice.^[1]

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. It was heavily damaged by fire in 2012 and then razed.^[2]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Sussex County, Delaware

Notes and References

1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=78000927}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Burton Hardware Store]. Edward F. Heite . May 1977. and
2. Web site: Historic downtown Seaford business structure razed. delaware.newszap.com. 2014-10-09. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20141217210742/http://delaware.newszap.com/southerndelaware/123369-70/historic-downtown-seaford-business-structure-razed. 2014-12-17.