Gov. William T. Watson Mansion

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Watson Mansion is a historic mansion located at Milford, Kent County, Delaware. It was built in 1906, and is a two-story, five-bay, center hall brick dwelling in the Classical Revival style.”
Wikipedia article Gov. William T. Watson Mansion, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 136 National Register listings published here for Kent County · listed in 1982 · 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. Watson, Gov. William T., Mansion - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 600 N. Walnut St., Milford, 19963
When was it listed? April 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Milford MRA
Census division. Milford North
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 82002323 - 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

9 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Gov. William T. Watson Mansion between 2002 and 2015, burning about 37 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	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
9 August 2004	Smoking	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
20 August 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
18 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
16 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Delaware State Fire Marshal's Office	not named
13 June 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Delaware Forest Service	FLEA FIRE
9 April 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	not named
6 April 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Delaware Forest Service	WHEAT FIRE
12 April 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Delaware Forest Service	TOBERT FIRE

Every fire recorded in Kent County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Gov. William T. Watson Mansion: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Barber Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Barber Sand and Gravel Pit and Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Porter Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Porter Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kent 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
Peter Lofland House	0.2 miles	1982
Bank House	0.3 miles	1978
Christ Church	0.3 miles	1973
North Milford Historic District	0.4 miles	1983
Old Fire House	0.4 miles	1983
Parson Thorne Mansion	0.5 miles	1971

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002323 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kent County	All 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.
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.