Wawaset Park, Wilmington, Delaware
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Wawaset Park is a planned community on the western edge of the City of Wilmington, Delaware
bounded by Woodlawn Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, Greenhill Avenue, and West 7th Street. The area was formerly the grounds of Schuetzen Park, a horse racing and later auto racing track and fair grounds. It was purchased in 1917 by the DuPont Company and developed into single family houses, semi-detached and row houses to meet the housing need for the company's expanding corporate staff.
The neighborhood's design, with curvilinear streets and ample lawns giving it the setting of a suburb within the city, was influenced by the work of Frederick Law Olmsted
, and its architecture includes Tudor cottages, Georgian
mansions, and elements of the Picturesque
and Gothic
styles.
Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington is the largest city in the state of Delaware, United States, and is located at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River. It is the county seat of New Castle County and one of the major cities in the Delaware Valley...
bounded by Woodlawn Avenue, Pennsylvania Avenue, Greenhill Avenue, and West 7th Street. The area was formerly the grounds of Schuetzen Park, a horse racing and later auto racing track and fair grounds. It was purchased in 1917 by the DuPont Company and developed into single family houses, semi-detached and row houses to meet the housing need for the company's expanding corporate staff.
The neighborhood's design, with curvilinear streets and ample lawns giving it the setting of a suburb within the city, was influenced by the work of Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted was an American journalist, social critic, public administrator, and landscape designer. He is popularly considered to be the father of American landscape architecture, although many scholars have bestowed that title upon Andrew Jackson Downing...
, and its architecture includes Tudor cottages, Georgian
Georgian architecture
Georgian architecture is the name given in most English-speaking countries to the set of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840. It is eponymous for the first four British monarchs of the House of Hanover—George I of Great Britain, George II of Great Britain, George III of the United...
mansions, and elements of the Picturesque
Picturesque
Picturesque is an aesthetic ideal introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc. Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the Summer of the Year 1770, a practical book which instructed England's...
and Gothic
Gothic Revival architecture
The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...
styles.
Architectural Components Common Among Homes When Constructed
- Metal Casement windows by "Fenestra"
- Slate Roofing