Teddy's Tavern, originally called the Blue Hen Garage, is a historic

tavern A tavern is a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and be served food such as different types of roast meats and cheese, and (mostly historically) where travelers would receive lodging. An inn is a tavern t ...

located at Ellendale, Sussex County, Delaware, USA. It was built about 1923, as a service station catering to motorists on the newly constructed Du Pont Highway. It was converted into a roadside tavern in 1937. It is a one-story, polychrome brick building with a low-pitched gable roof, low

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, and exposed rafter ends in a

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style. It has a flat-roofed "porch" supported by four massive brick and concrete conical columns. The interior consists of a package store, dining areas and a labyrinth of service rooms. It is one of the few surviving service stations or roadside taverns remaining from the pre-1940 era in Delaware. and ' It was added to the

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in 1991.

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Commercial buildings completed in 1923 Buildings and structures in Sussex County, Delaware Mission Revival architecture in Delaware Gas stations on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware National Register of Historic Places in Sussex County, Delaware {{Delaware-NRHP-stub