Middletown, Delaware

Middletown Historic District is a national historic district located at Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It encompasses 187 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Middletown. It is centered on the Middletown crossroads established in the 17th century. Residential buildings include notable examples of the Late Victorian and Federal styles. Notable non-residential buildings include the Witherspoon Inn (1761), S. M. Reynolds and Company (1871), Delaware Trust Company (1918), People's National Bank (1884), and Forest Presbyterian Church (1851). Also located in the district is the separately listed Middletown Academy or Town Hall (1827).It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

The Middletown Academy was a historic school located in Middletown, Delaware. Founded in 1826 through lottery subscription and constructed the following year, it became part of the public school system in 1876 and was closed in 1929. The school building survives and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 5, 1972. It presently houses the town historical society and chamber of commerce.

St. Joseph's Church is a historic Roman Catholic church at 17 W. Cochran Street in Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1883–84, and is a small rectangular frame building in the vernacular Gothic Revival style. It has a steeply pitched gable roof with projecting eaves, German siding, belfry, and a two-story rear wing, added between 1885 and 1900. It is currently known as the Holy Hill Worship Center. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Philip Reading Tannery, also known as Green's Barn, is a historic tannery building located at Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1780, and is a two-story, brick structure measuring 106 feet long by 30 feet wide. It is a rare surviving 18th-century industrial building that has been converted into a cow barn. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Greenlawn, also known as the Outten Davis House and William Brady House, was a historic home located at Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1810, and radically altered about 1860. It was a two-story, five-bay, brick dwelling with cross-gable roof with dormers. It had a rear brick ell with attached wing. It featured a three-bay front porch, large brackets, a widow's walk on the roof, and ornate chimney caps. It was originally built in the Late Georgian style, then modified with Late Victorian details.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and demolished in about 1985.

Fields Heirs, also known as Fields House, was a historic home located at Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1820, and was a 2+1⁄2-story, five-bay by two-bay center-hall plan residence with a 1+1⁄2-story rear wing forming an L-shaped house. It sat on a stone foundation and had a gable roof. Also on the property was a contributing drive-through granary.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and demolished between 1992 and 2002.

Saint Anne's Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal Church in Middletown, Delaware. The town church was built in 1888. The old church was built in 1768 on the site of an earlier wooden church built about 1705. Queen Anne presented the church with a "covering for the communion table."The church was nominated for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places on May 2, 1972, and was added to the Register on March 7, 1973.

Maple Grove Farm was a historic home located at Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware, USA. It was built about 1840, and was a 2+1⁄2-story, five-by-two bay, frame Georgian house with a two-story, frame gabled wing to the east and a two-story kitchen wing to the rear. It featured a full width front porch supported by Doric order columns. Also on the property was a small stone, stuccoed structure which appears to have been a meathouse.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and demolished between 1992 and 2002.

St. Anne's Episcopal School is a private school in Middletown, Delaware. The school was founded in 2001 by educators from St. Andrews School in Middletown. The school has two classes in grades Pre-K to 8th. There is also a preschool. The school promotes diversity and gives out 750,000 dollars annually in financial aid.St Anne's has a girls field hockey, male and female basketball, male and female soccer, co-ed cross country, boys and girls lacrosse, teams. The school currently runs an indoor soccer league. The school's first headmaster was Harvey Zendt. Peter Thayer replaced him in 2008.

Drawyer Creek is a 6.26 mi (10.07 km) long tributary to the Appoquinimink River in New Castle County, Delaware. Drawyer Creek is a mostly tidal tributary to the Appoquinimink River and is non-tidal above Shallcross Lake. Old Drawyers Church, a historic church, is located to the south of the creek.

Pharo House, also known as The Pratt House, is a historic home located in Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built around 1885, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, five-bay L-shaped frame dwelling with a steep gable roof. It has a one-story, flat-roofed addition on the ell added in the 1940s. It features two four-window bays that project from the main block and a full width front porch. Also on the property are the contributing granary or barn, battery house, and Big Chicken House or Breeder House.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

A. M. Vail House was a historic home located at Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It is a two-story, five-bay timber frame dwelling in the late-Federal style. It was built on a center-hall passage plan. Also on the property were a smoke house, a drive-through crib barn and granary, and a large frame cow barn.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It was demolished between 2007 and 2009.