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Photograph of Peter Marsh House
Photograph by Cortlandt Van Dyke Hubbard, Photographer, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Peter Marsh House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“Peter Marsh House, also known as The Homestead, is a historic home located in Henlopen Acres, just north of Rehoboth Beach, Sussex County, Delaware. The original house was built in the mid-18th century and consists of the two-bay, main section and three-bay kitchen wing.”

Wikipedia article Peter Marsh House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Sussex County · listed in 1977 · 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.
  • Listed as. Marsh, Peter, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 10 Dodd's Lane, Rehoboth Beach, 19971
  • When was it listed? November 1977
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Lewes
  • National Register reference number. 77000397 - 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

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Peter Marsh House in 2016, burning about 16 acres 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
Debris and open burning1

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 April 2016Debris and open burning16 acresDelaware Forest ServiceCOASTAL

Every fire recorded in Sussex County

Storms near this property

23 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rehoboth Beach, the town this property stands in, in 23 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 8 rip current, 6 lightning, 3 heavy rain, 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 deaths and 34 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2002Rip CurrentRehoboth Beach1 killedno account filed
August 2001Rip CurrentRehoboth Beach1 killedno account filed
July 2001Rip CurrentRehoboth Beach20 hurtno account filed
July 2001Rip CurrentRehoboth Beach7 hurtno account filed
August 2001Rip CurrentRehoboth Beach5 hurtno account filed
August 2001LightningRehoboth Beach2 hurt, $10,000no account filed
June 2009LightningRehoboth Beach$250,000In Rehoboth Beach, a lightning strike and ensuing fire caused about an estimated $250,000 in damage to a house on Coventry Lane in the Rehoboth Beach Yacht and Country Club development. Lightning apparently struck the attic of the home. Six fire companies fought the blaze.
August 1998LightningRehoboth Beach$175,000no account filed
June 2005LightningRehoboth Beach$10,000no account filed
July 2008LightningRehoboth Beach$1,000A lightning strike around Silver Lake caused about 600 homes and businesses to instantaneously lose power in Rehoboth Beach. The power surge then affected transformers in the area and an additional 2,000 homes and businesses lost power in Rehoboth Beach. Smoke from one transformer forced the evacuation of the Star of the Sea Condominium. All power was restored by 1038 p.m. EDT that evening.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindRehoboth Beach-Report from Rehoboth Beach. Emergency Management reports numerous trees uprooted, large tree limbs down, and power outages mainly across the southern side of town. Notably impacted areas were New Castle Street, Scarborough Avenue, Park Avenue, and Hickman Street. Time estimated via radar.
July 2017Heavy RainRehoboth Beach-Just under four inches of rain fell at this DEOS site.
September 2016FloodRehoboth Beach-Route 1 was closed due to flooding, rainfall and high tide both contributed.
September 2016Heavy RainRehoboth Beach-Just under 4 inches of rain fell.
September 2016Heavy RainRehoboth Beach-Just over three inches of rain fell.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindRehoboth Beach-A severe thunderstorm tore down large tree limbs and wires in Rehoboth Beach.
August 2008HailRehoboth Beach-Dime to nickel size hail fell in Rehoboth Beach.
August 2008HailRehoboth Beach-Nickel size hail fell at Rehoboth Beach.
September 2004Rip CurrentRehoboth Beach-no account filed
July 2002Rip CurrentRehoboth Beach-no account filed
September 2001Rip CurrentRehoboth Beach-no account filed
July 2000LightningRehoboth Beach-no account filed
August 1998WaterspoutRehoboth Beach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sussex 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
All Saints' Episcopal Church0.6 miles1991
Dodd Homestead1.4 miles1982
Coleman House4.3 miles1977
Lewes Historic District (Boundary Increase)4.3 miles1992
Lewes Presbyterian Church4.4 miles1977
Hall, Col. David, House4.4 miles1976

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 77000397 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sussex CountyAll 136 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.
  • 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.