Lowber, Matthew, House
E of Main St. (U.S. 113A), Magnolia, DEThe Matthew Lowber House is of architectural value as a precisely dated example of a small but comfortable country home of the later eighteenth century with minimal alteration. The builder was a fourth-generation descendant of a Dutch immigrant who reached New Amsterdam by 1677 and was in Kent County by 1684. Members of his line in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were comfortably well-to-do landowners and craftsmen, usually Friends. the colonial years they were not officeholders. The child- ren and grandchildren of Peter Lowber, the immigrant (d.1698) are the progenitors of many modern Kent County families. Another Lowber House, built around 1750 by Matthew's father, also named Matthew, is still standing in Frederica.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
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