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Architects: Robert M. Gurney Architect
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Photographs:Maxwell MacKenzie, Courtesy of Robert M. Gurney Architect
Text description provided by the architects. The small city of Lewes, Delaware, located on the eastern side of Sussex County faces northeast into the mouth of the Delaware Bay. Lewes is popularly known as an eighteenth-century coastal town commemorated for being the site of the earliest European settlement in Delaware. Lewes is composed primarily of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century building stock. The dominant building type is timber and the prevalent construction type is balloon framing. The starting point for this project is one such small house located at 308 Mulberry Street, originally constructed in the early nineteenth-century in the heart of the historical district.
