William Young House

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William Young House is a historic home located near Rockland, New Castle County, Delaware. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

It is just uphill from the Rockland Historic District, on Black Gates Road across from the DuPont Country Club in Woodbrook Standing alone facing west toward Rockland proper, and surrounded on three sides by a raised terrace with a stone wall, the William Young House is an imposing structure with a high degree of architectural integrity. It was built in 1802, and is a two-story, five-bay, stone dwelling with a hipped roof and in the Georgian style. The main block measures 50 feet (15 m) by 34 feet (10 m), with a kitchen ell measuring 26 feet (7.9 m) by 28 feet (8.5 m). The exterior is masonry; presently it is whitewashed, although there is evidence that it was originally intended to be stuccoed. In her book Reminiscences of Wilmington, Elizabeth Montgomery recalled fondly Mr Young and his endeavors, "a fine mansion was also put up in the last century, and improvements made from year to year".

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