Denny, T. H., House
a.k.a. Mount Pinder
DE 42, Kenton, DEThe Thomas H. Denny House, "Mount Pinder," is important as an example of a typical Delaware farmhouse that has been enlivened with the use of large and elaborate wooden lintels. These unusual features combine with the use of brick, to serve as a visual display of wealth for the original builders of the house. The house is also slightly longer than the usual 5-bay, center-hall dwellings and, hence, does not rise out of the landscape as much as it spreads itself over the land. Because of its use of unusual decorative elements, this is the only house in the hundred to have the massive wood lintels. "Mount Pinder" is being nominated under Criterion C for its architectural features.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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