Burton Hardware Store, also known as Burton Brothers Hardware Store, was a historic commercial building located at Seaford,

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. It was built about 1900, and was a two-story, roughly square, frame structure. It had a low-pitched roof and was partially sheathed in sheet metal imitations of rusticated cement blocks. The front facade featured an elaborate pressed metal cornice. and ' The building was added to the

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in 1978. It was heavily damaged by fire in 2012 and then razed.

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Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware Commercial buildings completed in 1900 Buildings and structures in Sussex County, Delaware Seaford, Delaware National Register of Historic Places in Sussex County, Delaware {{Delaware-NRHP-stub

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