Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church and Parsonage | |
Location: | 1009 Philadelphia Pike |
Nearest City: | Wilmington, Delaware |
Coordinates: | 39.7771°N -75.4907°W |
Built: | 1838 |
Architect: | Harvey, George; Springer, Lewis |
Architecture: | Queen Anne |
Added: | August 28, 1998 |
Refnum: | 98001097 |
Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church and Parsonage is a historic Methodist Episcopal church and parsonage located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1838, and is a one-story, stuccoed stone structure with a gable roof. It measures approximately 50 feet by 40 feet, and has a gable-roofed vestibule added in 1893. Adjacent to the church is the parsonage built in 1894. It is a -story, four-bay L-shaped frame dwelling in the Queen Anne style. It sits on a fieldstone foundation and features gray-green fish-scale shingles. Adjacent is the contributing church cemetery with burials dating back to 1841.[1]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It is now part of Bellevue State Park, a Delaware state park.[2]