Benjamin Blackiston House
Benjamin Blackiston House, also known as Deer Park, is a historic home located near Kenton in Kent County, Delaware. It was built about 1760, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, three-bay, vernacular frame dwelling.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Poinsett House and N. C. Downs House.
Poinsett House
House
Poinsett House is a historic home located at Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. The house was built in the mid-18th century as a tenant house. The original section is a two-story, two-bay, one-room plan brick structure measuring 20 feet by 18 feet. Poinsett House is situated 1 mile north of Benjamin Blackiston House.
N. C. Downs House
House
Photo: KLOTZPLATE, CC BY-SA 4.0.
N. C. Downs House is a historic house located along Road 141 in Kenton, Kent County, Delaware. N. C. Downs House is situated 2½ miles southeast of Benjamin Blackiston House.
Thomas Attix House
House
Photo: KLOTZPLATE, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Thomas Attix House is a historic home and farm complex located near Kenton in Kent County, Delaware. The house was built in about 1880, and is a two-story, three-bay, frame dwelling with a rear wing in a Gothic Revival / Queen Anne style. Thomas Attix House is situated 2½ miles southeast of Benjamin Blackiston House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Blackiston and Downs Chapel.
Blackiston
Hamlet
Blackiston is an unincorporated community in Kent County, Delaware, United States. Blackiston is at the intersection of state routes 6 and 42, west of Clayton and northwest of Kenton. Blackiston is situated 2½ miles northeast of Benjamin Blackiston House.
Downs Chapel
Hamlet
Downs Chapel is an unincorporated community in Kent County, Delaware, United States. Downs Chapel is located at the intersection of Delaware Route 300 and Downs Chapel Road, west of Kenton. Downs Chapel is situated 3 miles south of Benjamin Blackiston House.
Kenton
Village
Kenton is a town in Kent County, Delaware, United States. It is part of the Dover metropolitan statistical area. The population was 215 in 2020. Kenton is situated 4½ miles southeast of Benjamin Blackiston House.
Benjamin Blackiston House
- Type: House
- Description: historic house in Delaware, United States
- Categories: building, historic site, historic building, and residential building
- Location: Kent County, Delaware, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.25199° or 39° 15′ 7″ northLongitude
-75.73687° or 75° 44′ 13″ westOpen location code
87F67727+Q7OpenStreetMap ID
way 462891873OpenStreetMap feature
building=houseOpenStreetMap feature
historic=buildingWikidata ID
Q4888290
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In Other Languages
“Benjamin Blackiston House” goes by many names.
- French: “Benjamin Blackiston House”
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Highlights include Blackiston Cemetery and Blanco Church Cemetery.
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