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Jacob Broom House

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Jacob Broom House, also known historically as Hagley, is a historic house on Christchurch Road near Montchanin, Delaware, United States. It was built in 1795 by Founding Father Jacob Broom, one of the Delaware signers of the United States Constitution.”

Wikipedia article Jacob Broom House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

  • National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Listed as. Broom, Jacob, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 1 mi. NW of Wilmington, Montchanin, 19807
  • When was it listed? December 1974
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Piedmont
  • Architect. Jacob Broom
  • National Register reference number. 74000602 - 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 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Jacob Broom House in 2004, 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/undetermined2

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
20 November 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named
10 November 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDelaware State Fire Marshal's Officenot named

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Jacob Broom House: 3 plants, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Titanium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Titanium, Pigment. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
American Minerals/ Wilmington, De.ChromiumPast Producer
Edgemoor Plant TiTitanium, PigmentPlant1956
Fairville Mica OccurrenceMicaOccurrence
Wilmington Plant DupontTitaniumPlant
Wilmington Plantozark-MahoningFluorine-FluoritePlant

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Brandywine Manufacturers Sunday School0.1 miles1972
Brandywine Powder Mills District0.1 miles1984
Eleutherian Mills0.2 miles1966
Lower Louviers and Chicken Alley0.4 miles1972
Louviers0.5 miles1971
Walker's Mill and Walker's Bank0.7 miles1972

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74000602 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
New Castle CountyAll 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.