Old Post Office (Kirkwood, Delaware) Explained

Old Post Office
Coordinates:39.571°N -75.6964°W
Built:c.
Architecture:Second Empire, Mansard
Added:April 8, 1982
Refnum:82002330

Old Post Office is a historic home and post office building located at Kirkwood, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1870, and is a two-story, five-bay, frame double house with a mansard roof in the Second Empire style. The roof has decorative slate and the front facade features a full-width porch supported by five chamfered, wooden posts. Part of the house was once occupied by a post office and store.[1]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=82002330}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Old Post Office]. Richard T. Jett and Gretchen Fitting. July 1979. National Park Service. and