James Stewart House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“James Stewart House, also known as Holly Farm, is a historic home and farm located near Glasgow, New Castle County, Delaware, United States. The oldest section dates to the second half of the 18th century, with additions dating to the 18th and 19th centuries.”
Wikipedia article James Stewart House (Glasgow, Delaware), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1986 · 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 9 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Stewart, James, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. CR 401, Glascow, 19701
When was it listed? June 1986
Category. building
Census division. Glasgow
National Register reference number. 86001314 - 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

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of James Stewart House between 2005 and 2016, burning about 32 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
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
11 March 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
1 March 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
1 December 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	not named
19 November 2016	Recreation and ceremony	30 acres	Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service	MUDDY LANE

Every fire recorded in New Castle County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of James Stewart House: 7 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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
Chestnut Hill Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Iron Hill Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Freeway Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Freeway Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Route 40 Farm	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Whittington Sand & Gravel Pit & Mil	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Whittington Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	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
Aiken's Tavern Historic District	1.6 miles	1977
La Grange	1.8 miles	1974
White Hall	1.9 miles	1990
W. Casperson House	2.2 miles	1982
Old Cann Mansion House	2.2 miles	1982
Old Post Ofice	2.3 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001314 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.
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.