Owl's Nest Country Place

Built in 1915 (Tudor Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“The Greenville Country Club, formerly known as the Owl's Nest Country Place, is a country club at 201 Owl's Nest Road in Greenville, Delaware. The 18-acre (7.3 ha) property was developed in 1915 by Eugene du Pont, Jr., son of Eugene du Pont, as a country estate.”
Wikipedia article Owl's Nest Country Place, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 2010 · category: Building · built in 1915, Tudor Revival architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. 201 Owl's Nest Rd, Greenville, 19807
When was it listed? August 2010
Category. building
Census division. Piedmont
When was it built? 1915
Architectural style. Tudor Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 10000597 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Owl's Nest Country Place between 2018 and 2020, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
2 March 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Pennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection	WEBB ROAD
27 February 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection	STRIKER

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Owl's Nest Country Place: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Fairville Mica Occurrence	Mica	Occurrence

Every working recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this property

10 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenville, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2003 and 2020: 10 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	2 hurt	A tree fell onto a car due to thunderstorm winds, Two people were injured in the car.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	Trees down in Greenville. Time estimated from radar.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	Trees and power poles down n Greenville. Time estimated from radar.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	Trees and wires were downed in Greenville. Time estimated from radar.
October 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	A tree was downed near the intersection of Montchanin Rd and Buck Rd. Time estimated from radar.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down a few trees and wires in Greenville (Christina Hundred).
November 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down large tree limbs and wires in Greenville in Christina Hundred.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	A severe thunderstorm knocked down some large trees in and around Greenville. At least one road was blocked by fallen trees. About 8,000 homes and businesses lost power in New Castle County. There were still nearly 1,000 homes and businesses without power at 9 p.m. EDT that evening.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in New Castle County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Carpenter-Lippincott House	0.4 miles	1983
Centreville Historic District	0.5 miles	1983
Dauneport House	0.5 miles	2022
Joseph Chandler House	0.5 miles	1983
Mt. Airy School No. 27	0.7 miles	1983
Center Meeting and Schoolhouse	1.3 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000597 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
New Castle County	All 411 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.