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Denton Historic District

Inventory No.: CAR-284

Date Listed: 12/1/1983

Location: Denton, Caroline County

Category: District

Period/Date of Construction: early 19th century-mid 1930s

Resources: 232 (200 contributing, 27 non-contributing)

Description: The town of Denton is located on the flat land along the south bank of the Choptank River. Denton is laid out on a grid pattern with Franklin, Market, and Gay Streets as the major east-west corridors, intersected by First through Tenth Streets. The west end of the Denton Historic District focuses on the courthouse square, which was laid out in the 1790s. The courthouse dates to the late 19th century, and the square is faced on all sides by noteworthy residences and commercial structures dating from the mid 19th through early 20th centuries. Denton’s historic commercial district extends east of the square along Market Street for several blocks, and comprises a notable collection of two-story brick storefronts and one-story concrete block commercial structures dating from the early 20th century, with frame residences representing late-19th/early-20th century forms interspersed among them. Typical house forms include the two or three bay wide, two-story, gable-front house, often with more or less elaborate stick-and-scrollwork detailing and a one-story porch across the facade, bungalows, and the cubical hip-roofed house showing Colonial Revival influence. The houses along Fifth Avenue, the major artery in town, are larger and more architecturally distinguished than those in the rest of the district, with forms and detailing expressive of the Shingle Style and Colonial Revival fashions in early 20th century domestic architecture. These elegant houses rest well back from the roadway on broad, tree-shaded lawns.

Significance: The Denton Historic District is significant historically for its role as the seat of Caroline County and as a regional market center along Maryland’s Eastern Shore from the early 19th century through the mid 1930s. Represented by a wealth of commercial, residential, public, and religious architecture in a variety of periods, styles, and forms, the district is also architecturally significant. Apart from a few clusters of modern development near Market Street at Second and Fifth Streets, the district exhibits a strong sense of historic integrity and continuity.

District Resources (232) (200 contributing, 27 non-contributing)

From associated listing in National Register nomination form. C = Contributing, NC = non-contributing, blank = not evaluated.

Address	Status	Resource Name and MIHP (if any)
105 Fifth Avenue	C	CAR-274 -- Warren House
112 Fifth Avenue	C
114 Fifth Avenue	C	CAR-275 -- Muller House
115 Fifth Avenue	C	CAR-276 -- Logan House
200 Fifth Avenue	C	CAR-277 -- Maske House
201 Fifth Avenue	C	CAR-278 -- Nichols House
206 Fifth Avenue	C	CAR-279 -- Knott House (Stephens House)
209 Fifth Avenue	C	CAR-280 -- Palmer House
213 Fifth Avenue	C	CAR-281 -- Steelman House
214 Fifth Avenue	C
304 Fifth Avenue	C	CAR-282 -- Spence House
306 Fifth Avenue	C	CAR-283 -- Cordero House
312 Fifth Avenue	C
9 Fifth Street	C	CAR-146 -- Irl A. Daffin House
101 Fifth Street	C
107 Fifth Street	C
111 Fifth Street	C
113 Fifth Street	C
205 Fifth Street	C
217 Fifth Street	C
300 Fifth Street	C
308 Fifth Street	C
314 Fifth Street	C
3 First Street	C
4 S. First Street	C	CAR-200 -- Fisher House
5 N. First Street	C
7 N. First Street	C
410 Fountain Avenue	C
7 N. Fourth Street	C	CAR-145 -- Early Denton Dwelling
8 N. Fourth Street	C
9 N. Fourth Street	C
10 N. Fourth Street	C
12 N. Fourth Street	C
14 N. Fourth Street	C
105 Franklin Street	C
109 Franklin Street	C
111 Franklin Street	C
113-115 Franklin Street	C	CAR-246 -- Old Choptank Hotel
201 Franklin Street	C
203 Franklin Street	C
205 Franklin Street	C
209 Franklin Street	C
301 Franklin Street	C
309 Franklin Street	C
311 Franklin Street	C
405 Franklin Street	C
407 Franklin Street	C
509 Franklin Street	C
511 Franklin Street	C
512 Franklin Street	C	CAR-232 -- Old Caroline County High School (Denton Child Development Center)
513 Franklin Street	C
515 Franklin Street	C
517 Franklin Street	C
519 Franklin Street	C
523 Franklin Street	C
605 Franklin Street	C
101 Gay Street	C	CAR-233 -- Caroline County Jail
103 Gay Street	C	CAR-267 -- Goldsborough House
105 Gay Street	C
111 Gay Street	C
113 Gay Street	C
201 Gay Street	C
205 Gay Street	C
414 Gay Street	C
501 Gay Street	C	CAR-234 -- Denton Waterworks
608 Gay Street	C
609 Gay Street	C
610 Gay Street	C
611 Gay Street	C
612 Gay Street	C
615 Gay Street	C
700 Gay Street	C
701 Gay Street	C
703 Gay Street	C
705 Gay Street	C
709 Gay Street	C	CAR-284-1 -- House
711 Gay Street	C
712-714 Gay Street	C
717 Gay Street	C
722 Gay Street	C
732 Gay Street	C
801 Gay Street	C
Gay Street between 1st and 2nd	C	CAR-84 -- Christ Episcopal Church
607 Lincoln Street	C
611 Lincoln Street	C
Market Street	C	CAR-201 -- Law Building
106 Market Street	C
108 Market Street	C
118 Market Street	C	CAR-199 -- Old "People's Bank"
211-213 Market Street	C	CAR-238 -- Denton Journal Building
215-217 Market Street	C	CAR-239 -- Penny's Sewing Nook/Joseph Rosenblatt Law Office
222 Market Street	C	CAR-240 -- Everngam's Apparel Store
225-227 Market Street	C
304 Market Street	C	CAR-241 -- Carter Building (Edgehill Pharmacy)
313 Market Street	C
317 Market Street	C
318-320 Market Street	C	CAR-247 -- Drs. Billmeier and Branson Office
322 Market Street	C	CAR-242 -- Brick Commercial Building
323 Market Street	C
327 Market Street	C	CAR-88 -- Romanesque Building
400 Market Street	C	CAR-244 -- Caroline Home and Auto Supply
401 Market Street	C
404 Market Street	C	CAR-208 -- Brick Church
405 Market Street	C
406 Market Street	C
407 Market Street	C
409 Market Street	C
410 Market Street	C
411 Market Street	C
413 Market Street	C	CAR-245 -- Sunshine Laundry and Dry Cleaners
502-506 Market Street	C
505 Market Street	C
507 Market Street	C	CAR-235 -- Adams-Grace Apartments (Denton Methodist Protestant Church, Grace Methodist Church)
508 Market Street	C
511 Market Street	C
512 Market Street	C
514 Market Street	C
515 Market Street	C
517 Market Street	C
518 Market Street	C
519 Market Street	C
520 Market Street	C
521 Market Street	C
522 Market Street	C
523 Market Street	C
524 Market Street	C
525 Market Street	C
600 Market Street	C
601 Market Street	C
602 Market Street	C
604 Market Street	C
605 Market Street	C
607 Market Street	C
608 Market Street	C
609 Market Street	C
610 Market Street	C
611 Market Street	C
612 Market Street	C
613 Market Street	C
614 Market Street	C
615 Market Street	C
700 Market Street	C
701 Market Street	C
702 Market Street	C
703 Market Street	C
706 Market Street	C
707 Market Street	C
708 Market Street	C
713 Market Street	C
715 Market Street	C
800 Market Street	C
801 Market Street	C
802 Market Street	C
803 Market Street	C
804 Market Street	C
805 Market Street	C
807 Market Street	C	CAR-236 -- First Wesleyan Church
808 Market Street	C
810 Market Street	C
900 Market Street	C
901 Market Street	C
904 Market Street	C
908 Market Street	C
910 Market Street	C
509 Randolph Street	C
515 Randolph Street	C	CAR-270 -- Prahl House
8 N. Second Street	C
12 N. Second Street	C
12 S. Second Street	C	CAR-273 -- Moore's Funeral Home
S. Seventh Street	C	CAR-237 -- Church of the Brethren
12 Seventh Street	C
106 Seventh Street	C
100 Seventh Street (corner of Seventh and Franklin Street)	C
201 Seventh Street (corner of Seventh and Randolph Street)	C
9 S. Sixth Street	C
105 S. Sixth Street	C
106 Sixth Street	C
106 N. Sixth Street	C
107 S. Sixth Street	C
108 N. Sixth Street	C
109 Sixth Street	C
200 N. Sixth Street	C
200 S. Sixth Street	C
202 N. Sixth Street	C
204 N. Sixth Street	C
204 Sixth Street	C
205 Sixth Street	C
206 N. Sixth Street	C
207 Sixth Street	C
207 N. Sixth Street	C
208 N. Sixth Street	C
209 Sixth Street	C
211 Sixth Street	C
301 N. Sixth Street	C
103 Sixth Street (corner of Sixth Street and Franklin Street)	C
111 Sixth Street (corner of Sixth Street and Randolph Street)	C
201 Sixth Street (corner of Sixth Street and Randolph Street)	C
104 South Second Street	C	CAR-166 -- Denton Schoolhouse (Woman's Club of Denton, Inc.)
14 S. Third Street	C
103 N. Third Street	C
11 N. Eighth Street	NC
411 Franklin Street	NC
605 Franklin Street	NC
609 Franklin Street	NC
708 Gay Street	NC
716-718 Gay Street	NC
100-104 Market Street	NC
110 Market Street	NC
126 Market Street	NC
200-206 Market Street	NC
207 Market Street	NC
208-220 Market Street	NC
219 Market Street	NC
301 Market Street	NC
403 Market Street	NC
500 Market Street	NC
503 Market Street	NC
510 Market Street	NC
709 Market Street	NC
712 Market Street	NC
714 Market Street	NC
811 Market Street	NC
507 Randolph Street	NC
5 S. Second Street	NC
5 S. Sixth Street	NC
205 N. Sixth Street	NC
Southwest corner Fifth Street and Market Street	NC
Market Street	C/NC	CAR-85 -- Caroline County Courthouses
328 Market Street		CAR-243 -- Denton Hardware Company
4-6 N. Second Street		CAR-272 -- Denton Coins and Gifts
14 N. Second Street
16 N. Second Street		CAR-144 -- Annie Taylor House