Read House & Gardens
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Main - 302-322-8411
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- 42 The Strand Historic New Castle, DE 19720
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Read House and Gardens
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Overlooking the Delaware River in Historic New Castle, the 14,000-square-foot Read House is preserved as a National Historic Landmark and a beacon of design inspiration. It was completed in 1804 for George Read II, son of one of Delaware's signers of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution, with 2.5 acres of historic grounds developed between 1848 and the 1930s.