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Port Penn Historic District
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Port Penn Schoolhouse, Port Penn Historic District, December 2011
Port Penn Historic District is located in Delaware
Port Penn Historic District
Location in Delaware
Port Penn Historic District is located in the United States
Port Penn Historic District
Location in the United States
Location DE 9, Port Penn, Delaware
Area 71 acres (29 ha)
Built 1764 (1764)
Architect Multiple
NRHP reference No. 78000907
Added to NRHP November 20, 1978

Port Penn Historic District is a national historic district located at Port Penn, New Castle County, Delaware. It encompasses 48 contributing buildings and 5 contributing sites in the original eight block town plan and one block 19th century extension of Port Penn. The earliest building is the Dr. David Stewart House, dated to 1755. Notable buildings include the Bunlap, or Bendler House (1790s), the Cleaver-Hall House, Eaton House, Presbyterian Parsonage, T. Cleaver House, S. Carpenter House (bef. 1830), Port Penn School, "Linden Hall" (late 1840s ), Commodore's House, Jackson House (c. 1810), Presbyterian Church, Joseph Cleaver House (c. 1835), and St. Daniel's Methodist Church.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

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