Biddle House, also known as the Vandergrift-Biddle House, is a historic home located near Port Penn and St. Georges,

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. The house underwent five distinct periods of growth and in the process has grown from a one-room-plan plank house to an extended rambling two-story structure. The earliest section was built about 1780, with the first modification made in the early-19th century. It was later expanded during the

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era with wings. and It was listed on the

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in 1978. Vandergrift-Biddle House, Junction of US Route 13 and County Road 2, Saint Georges Hundred, Biddles Corner, New Castle County, DE HABS DEL,2-BIDCO,1- (sheet 5 of 8).png, HABS documentationHistoric American Buildings Survey
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* Historic American Buildings Survey in Delaware Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware Houses completed in 1780 Houses in New Castle County, Delaware National Register of Historic Places in New Castle County, Delaware {{Delaware-NRHP-stub