William Young House

Delaware, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Heritage registerNational Register of Historic Places↗

The William Young House is a historic stone dwelling built in 1802 near Rockland in New Castle County, Delaware, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. This two-story, five-bay structure exemplifies the late High Georgian style in Northern Delaware, constructed of uncoursed local stone (presently whitewashed, though originally intended to be stuccoed) with a hipped roof. The main block measures 50 by 34 feet, with an attached kitchen ell of 26 by 28 feet. Sited prominently on a hilltop and surrounded on three sides by a raised terrace with stone wall, the house stands across from the DuPont Country Club and preserves the architectural ambitions of its builder, William Young, a Scottish-born mill owner who arrived in Philadelphia in 1784 as a bookseller and publisher before establishing his paper and textile mills at the focus of the nearby Rockland Historic District. The dwelling remains architecturally significant as a medium-scaled example of early 19th-century industrial wealth in the Brandywine Valley.