Woodward Houses | |
 Woodward Houses, January 2010 | |
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| Location | 701-703 West St., Wilmington, Delaware |
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| Coordinates | 39°44′39″N 75°33′10″W / 39.74417°N 75.55278°W |
| Area | 0.4 acres (0.16 ha) |
| Built | c. 1745, 1760 |
| Architectural style | Georgian |
| NRHP reference No. | 79000639[1] |
| Added to NRHP | April 20, 1979 |
Woodward Houses are two historic homes located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. The house at 701 West Street was built about 1745, and is a 3+1⁄2-story, three-bay, quarried granite dwelling with a gable roof. It has an L-shaped, side-hall plan. The house at 703 West Street was built about 1760, and is a 3+1⁄2-story, three-bay, stuccoed stone dwelling with a gable roof. It is three feet shorter in both length and width than 701. Its interior was altered in the mid-19th century and then in the 1930s to accommodate apartment dwellings. They are excellent examples of the Georgian style. The houses were probably built by Joseph Woodward, a Quaker ropemaker from West Chester, Pennsylvania. There is a legend that the house at 703 contains a hearthstone which was a section of the platform where Thomas Jefferson stood to read the Declaration of Independence to the people of Philadelphia.[2]
The houses were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]
