S of Smyrna off DE 300, Smyrna, Delaware. County/parish: Kent.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 11, 1973. NRIS 73000503.
2 contributing buildings.Also known as:
Bannister Hall and Baynard House is a national historic district located near Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware. It includes structures dating from 1750. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The listing included two contributing buildings on 10 acres (4.0 ha).
Baynard House has also been named Fox Hall.
The cupola-topped Bannister Hall building "may have been the first pre-fabricated house erected in Delaware" although in appearance it is "typical of Delaware country mansions of the Victorian period."
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323942