Mount Pleasant (Smyrna, Delaware)

Mount Pleasant
Location Sunnyside Rd. (Road 90) in Duck Creek Hundred, near Smyrna, Delaware
Coordinates 39°16′38″N 75°36′27″W / 39.27722°N 75.60750°W / 39.27722; -75.60750Coordinates: 39°16′38″N 75°36′27″W / 39.27722°N 75.60750°W / 39.27722; -75.60750
Area 9 acres (3.6 ha)
Built c. 1810 (1810)
Architectural style Georgian / Federal
MPS Dwellings of the Rural Elite in Central Delaware MPS
NRHP Reference # 92001134[1]
Added to NRHP September 11, 1992

Mount Pleasant, also known as the Samuel Cahoon House, is a historic home located near Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware. It built about 1810, and consists of a two-story, five-bay, gable-roofed brick main house with an interior brick chimney stack at either gable end and a one-story, gable-roofed brick kitchen wing. It is in a late Georgian / Federal vernacular style and measures 43 feet by 25 feet. Also on the property are a contributing early 19th-century smokehouse and barn.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Bernard L. Herman, Rebecca J. Siders and Max Van Balgooy (n.d.). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Mount Pleasant" (PDF). National Park Service. and accompanying two photos


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