| James Morrow House | |
| Location: | 1130 (Formerly 1210) Ogletown Road, Newark, Delaware |
| Coordinates: | 39.6865°N -75.7261°W |
| Added: | August 19, 1983 |
| Refnum: | 83001399 |
The James Morrow House is a historic farmhouse in Newark, Delaware. It was built in the late 1860s by James Morrow, an Irish immigrant who owned a store in Wilmington. The building is locally significant for its unusual architecture, which features both a gambrel roof and a raised basement.[1] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
The house has one and a half stories on top of a partially above-ground basement. The facade is symmetrical, with two bays on either side of a flat-roofed porch. The exterior walls are stuccoed with green trim and large sash windows. The house has an asphalt-shingled gambrel roof with bracketed cornices and three gable dormer windows on each side.[1] The house is built from stone and weighs just under 500 tons.[2]
The Morrow House originally stood along with a number of outbuildings on a 24-acre parcel of farmland.[1] In 2008, after being empty for a number of years, the house was cut off at the foundation and moved some 300feet to the west in order to clear the site for new development.[3] [4] The owners of the building as of 2023 have since renovated the structure and opened it as coworking space.[5] [6]