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Spring Garden, also known as the Lewis Homestead, is a historic home located near Laurel,
Sussex County, Delaware Sussex County is located in the southern part of the U.S. state of Delaware, on the Delmarva Peninsula. As of the 2020 census, the population was 237,378. The county seat is Georgetown. The first European settlement in the state of Delaware w ...
. It is an "L"-shaped, brick and frame dwelling built in three sections over a 100-year period. The large brick main core was built about 1782, and is a -story, double-pile, center-hall plan structure with a three-bay facade in the Federal style. The interior has Georgian style details. It has a summer kitchen addition built about 1860, and it is a -story, single-pile structure added to the rear of the main core. About 1880, a large, two-story, frame addition was built onto the west gable end of the original brick section. It is in the Victorian Gothic style. and ' It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.


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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware Georgian architecture in Delaware Federal architecture in Delaware Gothic Revival architecture in Delaware Houses completed in 1782 Houses in Sussex County, Delaware Laurel, Delaware National Register of Historic Places in Sussex County, Delaware 1782 establishments in Delaware {{Delaware-NRHP-stub