The Joseph Chandler House, built c. 1800, is the oldest house in Centreville, Delaware. Centreville developed along the Kennett Pike (Delaware Route 52

Delaware Route 52

Delaware Route 52 is a state highway in New Castle County, Delaware. The route runs from U.S. Route 13 Business in Wilmington, Delaware north to Pennsylvania Route 52 at the Pennsylvania border near Centerville, Delaware. Even though the southern terminus is at US 13 Business, DelDOT has DE 52...

) starting about 1811, with its houses facing toward the pike. Nevertheless, the Chandler house faces south, away from the pike.

Dr. Joseph P. Chandler, who built the house, used it as a residence and an office. The house was later acquired by the Gregg, Carpenter and du Pont

Du Pont family

The Du Pont family is an American family descended from Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours . The son of a Paris watchmaker and a member of a Burgundian noble family, he and his sons, Victor Marie du Pont and Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, emigrated to the United States in 1800 and used the resources of...

  families. William S. Potter bought the house in 1935 and added brick and stone wings to the original stone house.

The house was listed by the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...

 in 1983, at the same time the nearby Centreville Historic District, Mt. Airy School No. 27

Mt. Airy School No. 27

Mt. Airy No. 27 School is a historic one-room school built in 1863 in Centreville, Delaware. It was designed and built as a one-room, one-teacher school, and operated as such from 1863 to 1932. It is now used as a private residence....

, and Carpenter-Lippincott House were also listed.