@historicamerican: Built 1769-1773 — Old Drawyers Church — #OdessaDE - The congregation was founded by Dutch and Swedish immigrants, though by the time the church was built the congregation was largely made up of Scottish immigrants. It was built between 1769 and 1773, and is a two-story, five bay brick building in the Georgian style. It features an elaborate Georgian doorway and gable roof. The interior features an ornate soundingboard, suspended over the open pulpit. It was listed on the #NationalRegisterofHistoricPlaces in 1973. - wiki - Harold Donaldson Eberlein has called it “one finest buildings of the Georgian Age in Delaware; one of the finest Georgian ecclesiastical structures, indeed, in the whole Country.” Its architecture certainly reflects the skill of Duncan Beard, and clockmaker, and probably of the builder Robert May, of Head of Elk, who was working nearby at the time. Even at a time when Georgian architecture was in eclipse, the peopleof Delaware consciously preserved their eighteenth-century churches and meeting houses long after they ceased to serve useful purposes. ‘Duncan Beard, who was on the building committee, was a well known clockmaker and silversmith. The knoll on which Drawyer’s Church stands is adjacent to the Drawyers Creek causeway, the site of a drawbridge erected around 1682. - NPS - #georgianarchitecture #churcharchitecture#historic#historicsite #historicbuildings #oldchurch#architecture #18thcentury #18thcenturyarchitecture #colonial#colonialamerica #colonialarchitecture #housetour#historytour#oldbuildings #oldhouse #historytok #architecturetiktok #churchdesign #delaware#delawarehistory #USHistory #neoclassical #neoclassicalarchitecture#americanarchitecture #architecturelovers #architecturedesign

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