Poinsett House
a.k.a. A. Poinsett House
DE 6, Kenton, DEThe Poinsett House is an example of the maintenance of two archaic building traditions. While brick appears to be the preferred building material of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth cen- tury in Kenton Hundred, the other surviving brick houses are much more substan- tial dwellings. This is the only one-room-plan dwelling in the hundred. The addition of the one-room, 2-story log wing immediately to the west of the core effectively converted the house into a hall-parlor-type, 4-bay dwelling with interior gable end chimneys. The kitchen wing most likely was the most recent addition to the dwelling.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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