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==Architecture== {{Infobox NRHP | name = Village of Arden | nocat = yes | nrhp_type = hd | image = | caption = | built = 1900 | architect = William Lightfoot Price, Frank Stephens | architecture = Tudor Revival, Elizabethan | added = February 6, 1973 | area = {{convert|163|acre}} | refnum = 73000550<ref name="nris">{{cite web|url={{NRHP url|id=73000550}}|title=Village of Arden NRHP Nomination Form|year=1973|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service}}, {{NRHP url|id=73000550|title=including photos|photos=y}}. Arden Historic District documentation not yet posted on-line.</ref> }} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Ardens Historic District | nocat = yes | nrhp_type = hd | locmapin = Delaware#USA | built = 1900 | architect = William L. Price, Frank Stephens | architecture = late 19th and early 20th century American Movements, barn | added = May 30, 2003 | area = {{convert|380|acre}} | refnum = 01001245<ref name="nris"/> }} There are six named houses in Arden designed by William Lightfoot Price: Friendly Gables (built 1909), 2205 Little Lane; The Lodge (1910), 2209 The Sweep; Rest Cottage (1910), 2328 Cherry Lane; Green Gate (1909), 2210 The Sweep; The Second Homestead (1909), 2311 Woodland; and The Fels House (1909), 2110 Orleans Road.<ref>[http://www.arden.delaware.gov/townMeetingPDFs/2003_01_27minutes.pdf Minutes] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101110090135/http://www.arden.delaware.gov/townMeetingPDFs/2003_01_27minutes.pdf |date=November 10, 2010 }} Town Meeting of January 27, 2003, accessed November 30, 2010.</ref> Price also designed the Arden Craft Shop in 1913. His designs are generally [[Elizabethan Revival]] and show the influence of the Arts and Crafts movement. The first houses built in Arden were small summer cottages that have been destroyed, or in a few cases greatly enlarged. Small worker's cottages were also built after the completion of the Craft Shop. Price may have participated in the designs of both these forms as well. Residents often designed, built and named their own cottages. [[Upton Sinclair]]'s cottage was built with funds from Joseph Fels and named by other residents "Jungalow."<ref>{{cite book | last =Taylor | first =Mark | title = Arden, Images of America | publisher = Arcadia Publishing | year = 2010 | pages = 128 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=9KxJTJw2GE4C | id = {{ISBN|0-7385-8559-9}}, {{ISBN|978-0-7385-8559-8}} }}</ref>
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