Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Historic American Buildings Survey
Historic American Buildings Survey
Photos from the Library of Congress Collection
The HABS seeks to "document achievements in architecture, engineering, and design in the United States and its territories through a comprehensive range of building types and engineering technologies including examples as diverse as the Pueblo of Acoma, houses, windmills, one-room schools and the Golden Gate Bridge".
Among the 350,000 HABS documents are high resolution photos made around 1936 by Walter Stewart of 46 houses in New Castle. Most of the buildings in New Castle itself looked in 1936 much as they do today with some changes in stucco, trees, ivy and automobiles. However outside of town buildings have been lost or changed beyond recognition.
View a gallery of exterior photos in New Castle town or vicinity
To see all the exterior photos available, many with interior shots, commentary by Laussat Rogers and a few measured drawings, visit the HABS search results for New Castle town or vicinity
Buildings included in the HABS site:
| 1 | 27-33 The Strand | Row Houses | 2 | Amstel House | 2 East Fourth Street | 3 | Archibald Alexander House | 26-28 Third Street | 4 | Aull House | 49-51 The Strand | 5 | Charles Thomas House | The Strand & Harmony Street | 6 | Cloud's Row | 117-125 Delaware Street | 7 | Colby House | 110 Delaware Street | 8 | Dorsey House | 8 East Third Street | 9 | Gemmill House | 18 East Third Street | 10 | George Read II House | 42 The Strand | 11 | George Rodney House & Office | 16 Third Street | 12 | Glebe House | Sixth Street East of Route 9 | 13 | The Hermitage | Route 273 & 9th Street | 14 | Immanuel Church (Episcopal) | The Green | 15 | James Booth House & Office | 216 Delaware Street | 16 | James W. Foster House | 159 East Third Street | 17 | Kensey Johns Jr. House | Delaware & Fourth Streets | 18 | Kensey Johns Sr. House | 2 East Third Street | 19 | Kensey Johns Van Dyke House | 300 Delaware Street | 20 | Lesley-Travers Mansion | 112 West Sixth Street | 21 | New Castle-Frenchtown Railroad Ticket Office | Washington Avenue Crossing (moved to Delaware Street) | 22 | Nicholas Van Dyke Jr. House | 400 Delaware Street | 23 | Old Academy Building | The Green | 24 | Old Arsenal | The Green | 25 | Old Dutch House | 32 East Third Street | 26 | Old Farmers Bank | 4 The Strand | 27 | Old Jefferson Hotel | Delaware Street & The Strand | 28 | Old New Castle Courthouse | Delaware Street | 29 | Old Presbyterian Church | Second Street between Harmony & Delaware Streets | 30 | Samuel Couper House | 14 The Strand | 31 | Rodney Willis House | 126 Harmony Street | 32 | Stonum | Ninth & Washington Streets | 33 | Tile House | 54 The Strand | 34 | Town Hall | Second & Delaware Streets | 35 | Van Leuvenigh House | 2 The Strand West | 36 | William M. King House | 100 The Strand | 37 | William Penn House | 206 Delaware Street | Vicinity | 38 | Alexander Porter Mansion Farm | Route 9 | 39 | The Buttonwoods | Forrester Avenue | 40 | Grantham House | 229 Grantham Lane | 41 | The Homestead | 3089 New Castle Avenue | 42 | Maple Shade Mansion | Delaware River | 43 | McCrone House | 1 mile South of intersection of U.S. Route 13 & Route 40, west of Route 13 | 44 | Monk Barns | Route 9 across from The Glebe (Knotts bus yard) | 45 | Old Eves Place | Delaware Memorial Bridge Vicinity | 46 | Swanwyck | 65 Landers Lane |