xzmattzx's daily Delaware photo

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January 14

A street scene in Newark on Main Street. Inluded in the picture on the right is the Stone Balloon, now torn down to make way for a mid-rise condo building. The Stone Balloon was once named a Top 10 College Bar by Playboy.

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January 15

The Saville luxury apartment building, renovated in the 1990's at 6th and King Streets in Wilmington.

[Raleigh-NC]

So far, you have done an impressice work!!! Keep it up.

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January 16

These buildings on Market Street in the Ship's Tavern neighborhood in Wilmington will be converted into lofts this Summer.

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January 17

Rowhouses along Bancroft Parkway in the Wilmington neighborhood of Woodlawn.

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January 18

A couple houses along the beach in Bethany Beach.

[BuffCity]

more neighborhood shots!

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Originally Posted by BuffCity

more neighborhood shots!

I have lots of pictures of Wilmington's neighborhoods so I'll be getting to them. Many are from the Spring or Summer so I am waiting until then to show them. Also, I can really only show one picture a day, so things will be slow. Lastly, I don't want this to be a Wilmington-only thread, so I need to get in plenty of other Delaware places.

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January 19

Rowhouses on State Street near The Green in Dover.

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January 20

Some Victorian houses in the Sussex County town of Milton.

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January 21

A covered bridge near Yorklyn on a snowy day.

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January 22

A snowy scene in White Clay Creek State Park near Pike Creek.

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January 23

A statue of Admiral Samuel Francis DuPont stands at the entrance to Rockford Park in The Highlands neighborhood of Wilmington. The Admiral DuPont statue originally stood in DuPont Circle in Washington, DC, until the DuPont family had the statue in the Circle replaced with a fountain and the statue was moved to DuPont's hometown. Rockford Tower is in the background.

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January 24

Curly's, north of Nassau on DE Route 1, is a great place to get a Carolina barbeque and ribs.

[Raleigh-NC]

Now we are thinking... Carolina BBQ Definitely I will have to stop by next time I head North.

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January 25

Dover Downs, on US Route 13 in Dover, is the site of a couple NASCAR races every Summer.

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January 26

St. Elizabeth Roman Catholic Church in the Hedgeville neighborhood of Wilmington.

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January 27

The University of Delaware's Field House, in Newark. This was the home of UD basketball until the Bob Carpenter Center was built in the 1990's. It is still the home of indoor track & field.

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January 28

100 years ago, today, the first train made a stop at Wilmington's new train station. The city celebrated the train station's 100th birthday this afternoon. You can read about the history of thr train station HERE on page 25 of the "Wilmington Development News" thread.

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January 29

The old mill race follows alongside the Brandywine River in the Wilmington neighborhood of Happy Valley. The mill race was used to power mills along the Brandywine. In the background, you can see the Van Buren Street Bridge, and farther in the background is the much larger bridge for I-95.