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Photograph by JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ, M.D, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Old Post Ofice

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Old Post Office is a historic home and post office building located at Kirkwood, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1870, and is a two-story, five-bay, frame double house with a mansard roof in the Second Empire style.”

Wikipedia article Old Post Office (Kirkwood, Delaware), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Kirkwood and St. Georges Rd., Kirkwood, 19701
  • When was it listed? April 1982
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Red Lion Hundred MRA
  • Census division. Red Lion
  • Architectural style. Second Empire architecture in the United States and Canada
  • National Register reference number. 82002330 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Old Post Ofice: 5 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Freeway PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Freeway Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Route 40 FarmSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Whittington Sand & Gravel Pit & MilSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Whittington Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Woodlawn Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Woodlawn Sand & Gravel Pit & MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in New Castle County

Storms near this property

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirkwood, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
July 2008LightningKirkwood$500,000A lightning strike and ensuing fire destroyed a home just east of Lump's Pond on Mariners Way in New Castle County. A firefighter suffered minor burns. Another lightning strike in Lump's Pond disrupted the county police radio communication. Communications was switched to a back-up system.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindKirkwood-Large branches down. Report from MPing.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindKirkwood-Several trees were blown down in a mobile home park. Social media picture showed several shallow rooted trees blown down in exact same direction. Time estimated from radar.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindKirkwood-Numerous trees and power lines were blown down along Porter road and in the Hickory Woods development. Event time was corrected based on radar data.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindKirkwood-Numerous trees and power lines were down along Porter road and in the Hickory Woods area.
July 2007Flash FloodKirkwood-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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Correll's Farm and Lawn Supplyunder 500 feet1982
Old Cann Mansion House0.3 miles1982
Point Farm1.2 miles1982
McCoy House1.3 miles1973
White Hall1.3 miles1990
Dragon Run Farm1.4 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82002330 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.
  • 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.