703 N West St, Wilmington, DE 19801

Description

Step into Wilmington’s storied past with 703 N West St, a historic apartment building on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979, adjacent to its sister property and representing one of the city’s only surviving pair of 18th-century stone houses with side-hall plans. Constructed around 1760 by the Woodward family as part of their ropemaking enterprise vital to the colonial port’s shipbuilding trade, this three-story, stuccoed stone structure with a brick rear ell retains charming Georgian elements like paneled walls, chair rails, original fireplaces, and a mid-19th-century mantel with Minton tiles. Its L-shaped layout and preserved details, including wide floo...