Rodney Court
Appearance
Rodney Court | |
Rodney Court, March 2010 | |
Location | 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., Wilmington, Delaware |
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Coordinates | 39°45′08″N 75°33′25″W / 39.752350°N 75.557039°W |
Area | 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) |
Built | 1928 |
Built by | VanSant Brothers |
Architect | Hance, Wallace |
NRHP reference No. | 80000938[1] |
Added to NRHP | April 2, 1980 |
Rodney Court, also known as Rodney Court Co-operative, is a historic apartment building located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware.
Career
[edit]Rodney Court was built in 1928, and is a six-story, L-shaped steel frame apartment building. The frame is sheathed in cinder block and faced with light-colored tapestry bricks. It features cast-stone trimmings with classical motifs and an elaborate cast-stone classically styled parapet.
It once had a large social hall adjoining a rooftop dance floor and roof garden, that has since been converted to a penthouse apartment. It is the last extant luxury apartment built in Wilmington before the Great Depression of the 1930s.[2]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Sara C. Ramsey; Eileen Mallouk & Betty Collins (November 1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Rodney Court". and Accompanying five photos