Kent Island homes, from the Cray House to Cloverfields and Harborview
Stevensville's historic district covers about 25 acres around Old Love Point Road, East Main Street and Cockey Lane, and includes the Cray House of about 1809, a rare surviving example of post-and-plank construction. Most of the island is newer. The county's 2007 Chester/Stevensville Community Plan says the Cloverfields subdivision, with 908 homes, and Bay City, with 582, date from the 1950s and 1960s, yet Census estimates put about three-quarters of Stevensville's homes at 1980 or later, so many houses on those streets are much younger than the subdivisions themselves.
Smaller developments such as Creekside Commons, Thompson's Creek Colony and Cox Creek Landing line Thompson Creek Road, and in Chester the plan names Harborview as the largest neighborhood, with the Bridge Point townhomes and condominiums on the same road. Census figures show about 76 percent of Stevensville homes are detached and nearly 12 percent attached, and more than 8 in 10 were built from the 1970s through the 2000s, so a lot of original doors are old enough for springs, cables and openers to wear out.
