Old Brick Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Old Brick Store, also known as the Old Brick Hotel and The Granary, is a historic commercial building located near Smyrna, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1764, and is a two- to three-story, three bay brick building.”
Wikipedia article Old Brick Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1973 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. NE of Smyrna off U.S. 13, Smyrna, 19977
When was it listed? August 1973
Category. building
Census division. Middletown-Odessa
National Register reference number. 73000541 - 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

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Old Brick Store between 1997 and 2016, burning about 10 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
3 July 2016	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	FISH
20 June 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	ENTRANCE
18 March 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge	MISERY

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 Old Brick Store: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Hoskinson Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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
Clearfield Farm	1.5 miles	1973
Fleming House	2.5 miles	1980
Savin-Wilson House	3.2 miles	1992
Mount Pleasant	3.6 miles	1992
Taylor's Bridge School	5.8 miles	2019
Huguenot House	5.8 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000541 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.