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Historic Odessa Foundation
P.O. Box 697
Odessa, Delaware 19730

Jennifer Cabell Kostik, Assistant Director

Email: jennifer.cabell@historicodessa.org
Phone: (302) 378-4119
Fax: (302) 378-4050

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Directions

The Historic Houses of Odessa are located on Main Street in Odessa, Delaware. We are situated 23 miles south of Wilmington just east of Route 13 and 24 miles north of Dover.

Address for GPS:

201 Main Street, Odessa, DE 19730

From Philadelphia and the North:

Take I-95 South into Delaware. If you are coming from New York City, you will enter Delaware going over the I-295 Delaware Memorial Bridge. Continue on I-95 South towards Baltimore. Exit at 4-A (sign to Christiana Mall) and follow signs to Route 1 South. Stay on Route 1 going over the bridge with the yellow arches and continue through the

From the Collection

Side chair (one of a pair)

Historic Odessa Foundation, gift of H. Rodney Sharp
1750-1780
Colonial Revival style garden pineapple gate ornament at the entry of the Corbit-Sharp House. The pineapple is historically the symbol of hospitality. It became a highly popular finial design in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.