Deer Park Farm

Deer Park Farm was a historic home located at Newark in New Castle County, Delaware.

Deer Park Farm
Deer Park Farm property, December 2010
Deer Park Farm is located in Delaware
Deer Park Farm
Deer Park Farm is located in the United States
Deer Park Farm
Location48 W. Park Pl., Newark, Delaware
Coordinates39°40′30″N 75°45′21″W
Area0.6 acres (0.24 ha)
Built1841 (1841)
Architectural styleGreek Revival
MPSNewark MRA
NRHP reference No.83001347[1]
Added to NRHPFebruary 24, 1983

Background

It was built in 1841, and was a three-story, five-bay, center-hall-plan with a shallowly-pitched roof in the Greek Revival style. It had a two-story kitchen wing and one-story library wing. It was the home of James S. Martin, a major developer in Newark in the 1840s and 1850s. In 1909, the property was sold to the Improved Order of Red Men, a fraternal organization, who used it to provide a home for retired Red Men and their wives. From 1953 to 1971, it housed fraternities.[2] The house has been demolished and the property occupied by a Christian Science Church.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]

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