The Reese Jones House
		Located at #2 Olde Kings Highway, the Reese Jones House is one of the oldest domestic structures in the village.  The present dwelling, erected before 1752, is a substantial six-bay, two-and-one-half-story brick dwelling built according to Delaware's traditional plan, with interior end chimneys.  The facade features a simple box cornice with molded trim, and has panelled shutters on the first floor level and louvered blinds on the second, and a plain Victorian veranda. The definate break in the brickwork, left of the main facade entrance, clearly indicates two distinct periods of construction.  The earliest portion is three bays wide and features a belt course and segmented brick arches above each end and basement window.  First floor window surrounds on this section are tenoned and are topped with unsophisticated brick lintels. The left three-bay facade, also laid in Flemish bond, was probably constructed in the nineteenth century.  This portion is adorned with unusual gothic arch shutters and is abutted at the rear by a lower, two-and-one-half-story structure, that may originally have been a separate outbuilding. This mansion house lot was owned by Dr. Reese (Rees) Jones, Christiana's first known physician, who owned the seventy-five acre tract on which the Village of Christiana Bridge was eventually established.  It became a part of the estate of Dr. William McMechen, Christiana's second practicing physician.  In 1764, Mary McMechen, wife of Dr. McMechen, inherited the house from her father, Thomas Ogle, one of nine tenants in common who had purchased Dr. Jones' estate in 1759. Source: Christiana Historic District Nomination, National Register of Historic Places, 1974.)