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Woodward Houses
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Woodward Houses, January 2010
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Location	701-703 West St., Wilmington, Delaware
Coordinates	39°44′39″N 75°33′10″W / 39.74417°N 75.55278°W / 39.74417; -75.55278
Area	0.4 acres (0.16 ha)
Built	c. 1745 (1745), 1760
Architectural style	Georgian
NRHP reference No.	79000639
Added to NRHP	April 20, 1979

Woodward Houses are two historic homes located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. The house at 701 West Street was built about 1745, and is a 3+1⁄2-story, three-bay, quarried granite dwelling with a gable roof. It has an L-shaped, side-hall plan. The house at 703 West Street was built about 1760, and is a 3+1⁄2-story, three-bay, stuccoed stone dwelling with a gable roof. It is three feet shorter in both length and width than 701. Its interior was altered in the mid-19th century and then in the 1930s to accommodate apartment dwellings. They are excellent examples of the Georgian style. The houses were probably built by Joseph Woodward, a Quaker ropemaker from West Chester, Pennsylvania. There is a legend that the house at 703 contains a hearthstone which was a section of the platform where Thomas Jefferson stood to read the Declaration of Independence to the people of Philadelphia.

The houses were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

References

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. Jean Athan and John Price (November 1978). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Woodward Houses". and Accompanying seven photos

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