Windsor

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Windsor, also known as Annondale, is a historic home located near Port Penn in New Castle County, Delaware, USA. It was built about 1760, and is a two-story, five-bay, gable-roof, brick building with interior brick chimneys at each gable end.”
Wikipedia article Windsor (Port Penn, Delaware), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 411 National Register listings published here for New Castle County · listed in 1992 · 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. 1060 Dutch Neck Rd., St. Georges Hundred, Port Penn, 19709
When was it listed? September 1992
Category. building
Also known as. Dwellings of the Rural Elite in Central Delaware MPS
Census division. Middletown-Odessa
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 92001131 - 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

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Windsor: 2 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
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

Storms near this property

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Penn, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2003	Lightning	Port Penn	$100,000	no account filed
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Penn	-	Reports of tree damage with debris blocking portions of Dutch Neck Road and Thorntown Road northwest of Port Penn. Power outages also reported in the area. Time estimated.
June 2021	Funnel Cloud	Port Penn	-	A funnel cloud was observed near Port Penn. Photos showed it extended about halfway to the ground. This was likely a non-mesocyclonic funnel associated with interactions between new updrafts and old outflow boundaries. Time estimated from radar and public reports.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Penn	-	A downed tree and utility pole led to the closure of the intersection of West Market Street and Delaware City Port Penn Road. The time of the event was estimated from radar.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Penn	-	Trees and wires down.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Penn	-	Several trees downed due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2013	Flash Flood	Port Penn	-	Thunderstorms with heavy rain caused flash flooding in Port Penn. Delaware State Route 9 was closed and several cars had to be abandoned. No serious injuries were reported.
August 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Penn	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Fairview	1.2 miles	1982
Cleaver House	1.5 miles	1985
Idalia Manor	1.7 miles	1985
Vernacular Frame House	1.9 miles	1982
Ashton Historic District	1.9 miles	1978
Sutton House	2.0 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001131 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.
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.