The Building at High and Cannon Streets was a historic commercial building located at Seaford,

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. It was built about 1885 and was a two-story, ten-bay, flat-roofed frame structure sheathed in pressed tin and

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brick-like siding. The original showcase windows and recessed doorways revealed that the building was originally divided into several stores. and ' It was added to the

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in 1987.

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Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware Commercial buildings completed in 1885 Buildings and structures in Sussex County, Delaware Seaford, Delaware National Register of Historic Places in Sussex County, Delaware 1885 establishments in Delaware {{Delaware-NRHP-stub