Lowe House, North side of Route 72, approximately 2 miles east of Hearns Crossroads (Routes 68, 70, & 461), Laurel, Sussex County, DE

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Lowe House, North side of Route 72, approximately 2 miles east of Hearns Crossroads (Routes 68, 70, & 461), Laurel, Sussex County, DE

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Summary

Significance: The Lowe House is one of southern Delaware's best preserved one-room mansion houses of the post-Revolutionary period. With its fully paneled interior finish, it represents the best of early 19th century dwellings.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N682
Survey number: HABS DE-100
Building/structure dates: 1800-1820 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1950 Subsequent Work

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Date

1950
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Milley, transmitter
Herman, Bernard L, historian
Mulrooney, M M, delineator
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Location

Laurel (Del.)38.55650, -75.57131
Google Map of 38.5565041, -75.5713141
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Source

Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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