Biddle House
Biddle House, also known as the Vandergrift-Biddle House, is a historic home located near Port Penn and St. Georges, New Castle County, Delaware. The house underwent five distinct periods of growth and in the process has grown from a one-room-plan plank house to an extended rambling two-story structure.Photo: KLOTZPLATE, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mondamon Farm and Liston Range Rear Light.
Mondamon Farm
Protected area
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Mondamon Farm is a historic home and farm complex located near Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. The original section was built about 1840. It is a 2+1⁄2-story, five-bay frame dwelling with a two-bay, two-story shed roof service ell. Mondamon Farm is situated 1,600 feet east of Biddle House.
Liston Range Rear Light
Protected area
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Liston Range Rear Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Delaware, United States, on the Delaware River. The 120 feet wrought iron tower was made by the Kellogg Bridge Company of Buffalo, New York. Liston Range Rear Light is situated 2,300 feet east of Biddle House.
Retirement Farm
House
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Retirement Farm, also known as the James M. Vandergrift Farm, is a historic home and farm located near Odessa, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in the late-19th century, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, five-bay frame, gable roofed farmhouse with a two-story rear ell. Retirement Farm is situated 4,200 feet south of Biddle House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Biddles Corner and Boyds Corner.
Biddles Corner
Hamlet
Biddles Corner is a location in St. George's Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, United States. Biddles Corner is at the intersection of U.S. Route 13 and Port Penn Road just east of the Biddles Corner toll plaza on the Delaware Route 1 toll road south of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, and the northern terminus of U.S. Route 301.
Boyds Corner
Hamlet
Boyds Corner is an unincorporated community in New Castle County, Delaware, United States. Boyds Corner is located at the intersection of U.S. Route 13 and Delaware Route 896, north of Odessa. Boyds Corner is situated 1½ miles south of Biddle House.
Saint Georges
Village
Saint Georges is an unincorporated town and former municipality situated on the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal in New Castle County, Delaware, United States, approximately midway between the Delaware River and Chesapeake Bay. Saint Georges is situated 2 miles north of Biddle House.
Biddle House
- Type: House
- Description: listed on the NRHP in New Castle County, Delaware
- Categories: heritage site, building, historic site, and residential building
- Location: New Castle County, Delaware, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.52386° or 39° 31′ 26″ northLongitude
-75.64767° or 75° 38′ 52″ westOpen location code
87F6G9F2+GWOpenStreetMap ID
way 369204341OpenStreetMap feature
building=houseOpenStreetMap feature
historic=heritageWikidata ID
Q14685257
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