Old Statehouse (Delaware)
| Old State House (Delaware) | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
 The Old State House |
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| location | The Green, Dover , Delaware | ||
| Coordinates | 39 ° 9 '23 " N , 75 ° 31' 23" W | ||
| Built | 1787-1792 | ||
| architect | unknown | ||
| Architectural style | Georgian architecture | ||
| NRHP number | 71000219 | ||
| The NRHP added | February 24, 1971 | ||
The Old State House is located in the old town of Dover within the so-called Dover Green Historic District , the historic village green .
history
The building was originally commissioned by Kent County as a courthouse and constructed from 1787 to 1791. The Kent County and Delaware governments shared the building from 1791, when the name was changed to "The State House," until 1873. The state used the building until 1933 when the General Assembly moved to the Legislative Hall . The Old State House is now a museum and is located in Old Dover.
architecture
It is a two-story, five-axis brick building in the Georgian style . Within the middle, slightly protruding axis, there is the main entrance on the ground floor and a Venetian window on the upper floor .
The entrance door, crowned with an aedicle-like triangular gable on Tuscan half-columns, is a narrow flight of stairs. The three openings of the Serliana on the upper floor are framed by four Ionic pilasters , each supporting an architrave on the left and right , while the middle, wider opening closes with a lunette window .
A clipped, clapboard- covered gable roof rises above the antique cornice . Its upper end, designed as a flat roof, is framed by a balustrade . On the roof there is an octagonal lantern with an open bell tower. The exterior was later redesigned in a Victorian style , but returned to its original state in 1976.
Inside, a double curved staircase connects the historic courtroom on the ground floor with the former government offices.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ National Register of Historic Places . In: National Historic Landmark summary listing . National Park Service.
- ↑ a b State House Museum . State of Delaware.