Rodney Court Explained

Rodney Court
Location:1100 Pennsylvania Ave., Wilmington, Delaware
Coordinates:39.7524°N -75.557°W
Architect:Hance, Wallace
Builder:VanSant Brothers
Added:April 2, 1980
Refnum:80000938

Rodney Court, also known as Rodney Court Co-operative, is a historic apartment building located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.

Career

Rodney Court was built in 1928, and is a six-story, L-shaped steel frame apartment building. The frame is sheathed in cinder block and faced with light-colored tapestry bricks. It features cast-stone trimmings with classical motifs and an elaborate cast-stone classically styled parapet.

It once had a large social hall adjoining a rooftop dance floor and roof garden, that has since been converted to a penthouse apartment. It is the last extant luxury apartment built in Wilmington before the Great Depression of the 1930s.[1]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=80000938}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Rodney Court ]. Sara C. Ramsey . Eileen Mallouk . Betty Collins . amp . November 1979. and