The Joel Lewis House
		Adjoining the Presbyterian Church property is the Joel Lewis House.  The two-story-and-attic house was built before 1799.  Unlike any other private residence in the village, it was built into a hill thereby enabling the basement to function as part of the living quarters.
			The facade features a simple box cornice with molded trim and solid panelled shutters at the first floor level.  In keeping with the Delaware tradition, it is one-room deep and was constructed with interior chimneys.  Later, in the nineteen century, a brick addition was added to the northeastern corner of the structure with a chimney flued into the original end chimney, thus creating an unusual chimney arrangement.  Though the interior of this residence has been altered over the yeras, it still retains its original wooden mantels with reeded trim, that are characteristic of the Federal Period. In the early 21st century, a massive two story addition has been constructed on the rear of the structure. Joel Lewis, Christiana's only hatter, first acquired the property on February 22, 1775.  John Vaughan, a physician of Christiana, acquired the property from Lewis on December 11, 1798, only to return it to the grantor within a years time. Joel Lewis had become one of Christiana's most prosperous merchants by 1798, and eventually became a United State Marshall under the Jefferson administration. Source: Christiana Historic District Nomination, National Register of Histroic Places, 1974.