A Walking Tour of Dover, Delaware (Look Up, America!)
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This is a must do!! Had a blast at Dover Days. Plenty of things to see and do. Great variety of food vendors, exhibitions, and other local businesses. Loved that they had a changing station with different products to try and convenience to change a baby. A great balance of historical information, people in period costumes, a kids area, and much more. I want to go back and take some tours as well. Reminded me a bit of Williamsburg, Virginia. Own or manage this property?
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First State Heritage Park. Ranked 9 of 25 things to do in Dover. Attraction details Owner description: First State Heritate Park is Delaware's first urban "park without boundaries" that links historic and cultural sites in the city that has been the seat of government since Admission to all sites is free.
Dress warmly and be prepared to tackle some hills! The Du Pont Family have been closely tied to Delaware from to the present. First State Heritage Park. Friday, February 15 at 8 a. Dogs must be on a leash. Allee Building 56 the Green Built in the s the Allee Building came with the wave of Colonial Revival building that purged downtown Dover of much of its 19th-century building stock. Joshua Fisher, a leading member of the Dover bar in the late s built this Federal-style house around
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Joshua Fisher, a leading member of the Dover bar in the late s built this Federal-style house around The Italianate-style bracketed cornice came along a half-century later. Dover Century Club 40 the Green.
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George and Jane Parris, devout Baptists, moved to Dover in and not only found no church but only one other Baptist couple in town. It would not be until that money was raised to lay the cornerstone for this house of worship when the congregation numbered eight. The congregation moved in and the building was sold to the Dover Century Club in The Colonial Revival detailing, including a large second-floor Palladian window, were added after that time.
This clapboard structure is an entry to the Green. Doric-style columns support an open porch accented by graceful turned balusters. Jacob Furbee House 48 the Green. The home was owned by Jacob Furbee, an innkeeper. Here is another Federal-style offering, executed in Flemish bond brick.
The structure was used both as a house and an office which probably explains the unusual placement of the front door. Allee Building 56 the Green. Built in the s the Allee Building came with the wave of Colonial Revival building that purged downtown Dover of much of its 19th-century building stock.
Kent County Courthouse 38 the Green. The first building in Dover, a courthouse, rose on this location in In this brick courthouse was completely overhauled in the Dover mania for Colonial-era replicas. John Bell Office 49 the Green. This small cross-gable structure, covered with clapboard, dates to around Sykes House 45 the Green. James Sykes, a celebrated surgeon, erected this house around Frame, Chancellor John G. Nicholson and the late James M. Supreme Court Building 55 the Green. The building was spruced up in and again in Evidence suggests that he built the Georgian-style mansion known today as Loockerman Hall soon after inheriting the property.
This is the home of his father, Vincent Loockerman, built in and has remained in the family for over years. An attached building to the north was once the Eagle Tavern. This congregation can trace its roots back to and a petition from 22 Doverites for a mission. The core of this brick church was raised in , the bell tower is a Victorian addition from This is another government building erected in the Colonial Revival style; it is occupied by the Executive Office of the Governor of Delaware.
Legislative Hall Legislative Avenue. William Martin drew up the Georgian Revival plans for Legislative Hall which were executed in hand-fired brick.
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The new home for state lawmakers was dedicated in In the s wings were added to the structure which provided an office for every legislator to go with their desk in the Legislative Hall chamber. More space was added again in the s. Established in , the Sewell C. The permanent collection includes the best American paintings collection on the Delmarva Peninsula with highlights by the Peale family, Albert Bierstadt, Gilbert Stuart, and Childe Hassam.
Townsend Building Federal Street. Plans for this government office building got underway in the late s, shortly after John G. Townsend, a former governor and two-term United States senator, died at the age of 92 in Soon he realized the need for railroad ties, set up a saw mill and began selling them. In he moved his family to Selbyville, Delaware, where he transferred his energies to growing strawberries. By the time of his death, Townsend, Inc. It features a limestone portico highlighted by columns built to mimic the Tower of the Winds in Athens, Greece.
An exuberant High Victorian pile from the s was removed and later destroyed to make room in the early s for this Colonial Revival replica. This congregation got underway in and was a familiar stop on the circuits traveled by the pioneer of American Methodism, Francis Asbury. This building, which has undergone several enlargements and improvements, dates to September 23, when the cornerstone was laid.
In , led by Joe McDaniel, the Greater Dover committee contributed to and orchestrated the purchase of a new town clock, and gifted it to the citizens of Dover. Woodburn Kings Highway.
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It passed out of the Hillyard family shortly after its construction and was owned by a parade of subsequent residents, including a pair of United States senators. Since it has functioned as the official residence of the Governor of Delaware, beginning with Charles L. First Lady Jessica Irby Terry also began a tradition of opening the mansion to the public in ; it can be toured today by appointment. Not all Delaware Governors have kept Woodburn as their primary residence but all have kept it available for state functions.
The dawn redwood located by the sidewalk in the southern end of the property was planted in as a memorial to Governor Terry. This ancient tree was known only through fossils until when a botany student tracked down living specimens in rural China. Hall House Kings Highway. It dates from a century earlier and exhibits hallmarks of Queen Anne, Stick and Gothic styles.
Palmer Home North American Avenue. Vaux of Philadelphia designed this building in just before his death; it served as the Palmer Home for the Aged. Vaus had graduated from Haverford College with an engineering background and was only 36 years old at the time of his passing.
Richardson Hall 29 North State Street. Harry Alden Richardson was a prosperous canner who lost the race for governor of Delaware in by fewer than votes. He went back to his job as President of the First National Bank of Dover and was able to able to console himself in this stylish Queen Anne residence he had constructed earlier that year. In at the age of 54 Richardson took another stab at politics and won election to the United States Senate and served one term as a Republican.
Mifflin House 2 North State Street. This Second Empire ornament was added to the Dover streetscape int he s; it is executed in in green serpentine stone mined in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The stone made for attractive buildings but was not used widely due to concerns for its durability. Henry Ridgely in Patriarch Nicholas Ridgeley landed on the Delaware Supreme Court and was selected by Caesar Rodney to be his guardian when the future Delaware hero was a minor.
Plans for this elaborate structure were likely uncovered in a popular pattern book by architect Andrew Jackson Downing in the s. The owner was Thomas B. Bradford, a Presbyterian minister. It sports ornamental bargeboards, a wood-turned porch and decorative window treatments. This mid-block commercial building began life as a Masonic lodge in