The Quaker Hill Historic District is a national

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located at Wilmington,

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. It encompasses 151

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in a residential neighborhood west of the

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of Wilmington. The district includes 19th-century residential structures of all classes, along with several 19th-and 20th-century commercial structures. The predominant structures are three-story

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dwellings in a variety of popular styles including

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, and

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

. Notable non-residential buildings include the Quaker Meetinghouse and Cemetery, St. Peter's Cathedral and Rectory (1816), Union Methodist Church, and New Mount Bethel Baptist Church and and It was added to the

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in 1979, with a boundary increase in 1985.

Gallery

Image:Wilmington Meetinghouse.JPG, Friends Meeting House Image:Cathedral of Saint Peter, Wilmington DE.jpg, Cathedral of Saint Peter

References

External links

Quaker Hill Historic Preservation - Architecture
Gothic Revival architecture in Delaware Italianate architecture in Delaware Second Empire architecture in Delaware Historic districts in Wilmington, Delaware Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware National Register of Historic Places in Wilmington, Delaware {{Delaware-NRHP-stub