William Talley House is a historic home located at Wilmington,

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. It was built about 1770, as a one-room deep, two-room wide

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dwelling. The house has evolved to a -story, four-bay, rectangular dwelling with a steep gable roof. It has two rectangular inside end brick chimneys covered with

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that project through the gable peak. The shed-roofed, sun porch addition was built in the 1940s and a

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form rear frame addition was built in the 1960s. and It was added to the

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in 1985.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware Houses completed in 1770 Houses in Wilmington, Delaware National Register of Historic Places in Wilmington, Delaware 1770 establishments in Delaware Stone houses in Delaware {{Delaware-NRHP-stub