Harlan and Hollingsworth Office Building

The Harlan and Hollingsworth Office Building is a historic office building located in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It was completed in 1912, and stands on the corner of West St. and the Wilmington Rail Viaduct. It is a three-story, detached, rectangular brick-faced building with two small rear wings in the Colonial Revival style. It features two large, decorated copper-faced bay windows projecting from each face of the right corner of the second story.[2]

Harlan and Hollingsworth Office Building
Front of the Harlan and Hollingsworth Office Building.
Harlan and Hollingsworth Office Building is located in Delaware
Harlan and Hollingsworth Office Building
Harlan and Hollingsworth Office Building is located in the United States
Harlan and Hollingsworth Office Building
LocationWest St., Wilmington, Delaware
Coordinates39°44′18″N 75°33′21″W / 39.738469°N 75.555964°W / 39.738469; -75.555964
Area0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built1912 (1912)
Architectural styleColonial Revival
NRHP reference No.79000634[1]
Added to NRHPApril 26, 1979

By 1910, existing office facilities at the Harlan Plant of Bethlehem Steel (formerly Harlan and Hollingsworth) had become inadequate, and work started on a new office building. It survived the closing of the Harlan Plant in 1944, and once housed laboratories for Gates Engineering Company. The building was purchased by 100 South West Street Associates in 1991 and restored.[3]

It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1]

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  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Jean Athan (November 1978). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Harlan and Hollingsworth Office Building". and Accompanying eight photos
  3. ^ Thompson, Priscilla M.; O'Byrne, Sally (1999). Wilmington's Waterfront. Great Britain: Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-0304-5.
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