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First National Bank of Seaford

building in Delaware, United States

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ5453415 ↗
Source-derived summary

First National Bank of Seaford is a historic bank building located at Seaford, Sussex County, Delaware, United States. It was built in 1868, and is a two-story, five-bay, rectangular brick structure in the Italianate style. It has a hipped roof with dormers and a two-story, frame addition. It is the oldest standing bank building in Seaford and has been converted to apartments.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

Editorial summary

“First National Bank of Seaford” enters the record as building in Delaware, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what First, National and Bank can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1868, 1987—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around First, National and Bank.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“First National Bank of Seaford” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, First, National and Bank provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5453415. VIAF identifies the subject as 124465722. Authority coordinates are 38.642, -75.612. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1868 and 1987.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “First National Bank of Seaford”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow First National Bank of Seaford primary sources, First National Bank of Seaford archive and First research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “First National Bank of Seaford”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “First National Bank of Seaford” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.