Fennimore Store

Fennimore Store

Fennimore Store, September 2012
Location Main, Lombard, and Front Sts., Leipsic, Delaware
Coordinates 39°14′27″N 75°30′51″W / 39.24083°N 75.51417°W / 39.24083; -75.51417Coordinates: 39°14′27″N 75°30′51″W / 39.24083°N 75.51417°W / 39.24083; -75.51417
Area 0.1 acres (0.040 ha)
Built 1840 (1840)-1860
MPS Leipsic and Little Creek MRA
NRHP Reference # 82002314[1]
Added to NRHP May 24, 1982

Fennimore Store is a historic commercial building located at Leipsic, Kent County, Delaware. It was built between 1840 and 1860, and is a two-story, hipped roofed frame structure clad in weatherboard siding. It features a full-width porch on two sides. It is representative of mid-19th-century commercial vernacular architecture. It has housed a general store, grocery and gas station, muskrat skinner's store and antique shop at various periods.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. Stephen Del Sordo; et al. (November 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Fennimore Store" (PDF). National Park Service. and accompanying photo


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