Delaware

5 Shipcarpenter Square, Lewes, Delaware (38.775969, 38.775969)

Primary House Felling Dates: Winter 1834/5

Site Master 1723-1834 (white oak) SCDEx1 (t = 6.84 HAND; 6.13 MD2011; 6.10 VA2011).

5 Shipcarpenter Square is a one-and-a-half-story framed structure moved to its present location in the 1980s as part of the Shipcarpenter Square development. According to the official history of the development (https://sites.google.com/view/shipcarpenter-square/history?authuser=0), the house was originally built in the 1830s as a fisherman’s cottage on Pilottown Road in Lewes, then was moved to Belltown and used as a laundry/speakeasy/general store before being moved to its current location.

Dendrochronological analysis has shown that the building was constructed from timbers felled in the winter of 1834/5.

Worthington, M J and Seiter, J I 2017 Worthington, M J and Seiter, J I 2021 “The Tree-Ring Dating of 5 Shipcarpenter Square, Lewes, Lewes, Delaware,” Oxford Tree-Ring Laboratory Report 2018/10