Retirement Farm, also known as the James M. Vandergrift Farm, is a historic home and farm located near

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. It was built in the late-19th century, and is a -story, five-bay frame, gable roofed farmhouse with a two-story rear ell. Also on the property are a small barn (c. 1800),

granary A granary is a storehouse or room in a barn for threshed grain or animal feed. Ancient or primitive granaries are most often made of pottery. Granaries are often built above the ground to keep the stored food away from mice and other animal ...

(c. 1850), and barn (c. 1900). The small barn is the last known example of its kind surviving in St. Georges Hundred. and It was listed on the

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in 1985.

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* Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware Barns on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware Houses in New Castle County, Delaware Historic American Buildings Survey in Delaware National Register of Historic Places in New Castle County, Delaware {{Delaware-NRHP-stub