Teddy's Tavern Explained

Teddy's Tavern
Location:Eastern side of U.S. Route 113 (Du Pont Boulevard), 0.6 miles north of its junction with Delaware Route 16 in Cedar Creek Hundred, Ellendale, Delaware
Coordinates:38.8147°N -75.4386°W
Built:, 1937
Architecture:Mission/spanish Revival
Added:July 22, 1991
Refnum:91000911

Teddy's Tavern, originally called the Blue Hen Garage, is a historic tavern located at Ellendale, Sussex County, Delaware, USA. It was built about 1923, as a service station catering to motorists on the newly constructed Du Pont Highway. It was converted into a roadside tavern in 1937. It is a one-story, polychrome brick building with a low-pitched gable roof, low parapet, and exposed rafter ends in a Mission/Spanish Revival style. It has a flat-roofed "porch" supported by four massive brick and concrete conical columns. The interior consists of a package store, dining areas and a labyrinth of service rooms. It is one of the few surviving service stations or roadside taverns remaining from the pre-1940 era in Delaware.[1]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=91000911}} National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Teddy's Tavern ]. Steven H. Moffson. April 1991. and