Woodward Houses
Delaware, United States
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The Woodward Houses are two Georgian-style dwellings located in Wilmington, Delaware, built by Joseph Woodward, a Quaker ropemaker from West Chester, Pennsylvania. The house at 701 West Street, constructed around 1745, is a 3½-story quarried granite structure with three bays and a gable roof, featuring an L-shaped side-hall plan. Its companion at 703 West Street, built about 1760, is a slightly smaller 3½-story stuccoed stone dwelling, also three-bayed with a gable roof, whose interior was later modified in the mid-nineteenth and 1930s to create apartment units. Both are considered excellent examples of Georgian architecture. Local legend attributes a hearthstone in the 703 house to the platform from which Thomas Jefferson read the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. The houses were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
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- Delaware, United States
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