Spring Garden, Laurel

Name: Spring Garden
Address: Laurel, United States

#2 among attractions in Laurel

Georgian architecture, Gothic Revival architecture

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Spring Garden, also known as the Lewis Homestead, is a historic home located near Laurel, Sussex County, Delaware. It is an "L"-shaped, brick and frame dwelling built in three sections over a 100-year period. The large brick main core was built about 1782, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, double-pile, center-hall plan structure with a three-bay facade in the Federal style. The interior has Georgian style details. It has a summer kitchen addition built about 1860, and it is a 1+1⁄2-story, single-pile structure added to the rear of the main core. About 1880, a large, two-story, frame addition was built onto the west gable end of the original brick section. It is in the Victorian Gothic style. ()

Built: 1782 (242 years ago)Coordinates: 38°33'52"N, 75°34'2"W

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Laurel United States

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Spring Garden – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Trap Pond State Park, Old Christ Church, St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church.

6.1 miSE
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Trap Pond State Park
156 min walk • Trap Pond State Park is a 3,653 acre Delaware state park located near Laurel, Delaware, USA. It is one of the largest surviving fragments of what was once an extensive wetland in what is now southwestern Sussex County.
1.6 miE
Church, Georgian architecture
Old Christ Church, Laurel
41 min walk • Old Christ Church, also known as Old Lightwood, is a historic Episcopal church near Laurel, Sussex County, Delaware. The 1772 church resembles its parent church, Green Hill Church of Stepney Parish in Wicomico County, Maryland, except that while Stepney was built in brick, Christ Church is of wood construction.
5.9 miNW
Church, Gothic Revival architecture
St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church, Seaford
151 min walk • The St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located in Seaford, Sussex County, Delaware. It was built in 1843, and reconstructed in 1904. It is a two-story, brick Gothic Revival style building. It has a one-story chancel and crenellated three-story tower. It features stained glass lancet windows.

Spring Garden, Laurel

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Spring Garden – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Trap Pond State Park

Old Christ Church, Laurel

St. Luke's Protestant Episcopal Church, Seaford