Rawley House
Main St., Leipsic, DEThe Rawley House is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places as it is architecturally significant as an example of the mid-nineteenth century vernacular building traditions which continue to define the built environments of Leipsic, Little Creek, and the surrounding landscape. The sequence of nineteenth-century additions made to the original two-story, single-pile, side-passage plan dwelling, represents a broader movement in nineteenth-century domestic housing drawing all the functional spaces of the household from the kitchen to parlor under a single roof. The process of functional integration in the 1800's represented a major departure from the eighteenth cen- tury notion of a core dwelling surrounded by separate support structures.
In terms of construction the Rawley House also represents the continued pre- ference for a braced frame building tradition through the nineteenth century. The use of an exposed exterior chimney back illustrates the northern range of this feature more common to the southern reaches of the Delmarva Peninsula.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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