Photograph of Ethel S. Roy House — Photograph by Smallbones, CC0 1.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Vernacular Frame House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Roy House is a historic building identified simply as Vernacular Frame House when listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 as part of the Red Lion Hundred Multiple Resource Area.”
Wikipedia article Ethel S. Roy House, 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Delaware St., St. Georges, 19720
When was it listed? April 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Red Lion Hundred MRA
Census division. Red Lion
National Register reference number. 82002359 - 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

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Vernacular Frame House: 4 past producers, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sulfur. 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
Delaware Plant Getty	Sulfur	Plant
Freeway Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Freeway Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Woodlawn Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Woodlawn Sand & Gravel Pit & Mill	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

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
Sutton House	0.1 miles	1973
North Saint Georges Historic District	0.2 miles	1995
St. Georges Presbyterian Church	0.2 miles	1984
Bloomfield	0.4 miles	1982
Linden Hill	0.6 miles	1982
Idalia Manor	1.0 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82002359 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.
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.