Short's Landing Hotel Complex

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Short's Landing Hotel Complex
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Location6180 Hay Point Landing Road, near Smyrna, Delaware
Coordinates 39°20′49″N75°32′12″W / 39.346959°N 75.536639°W / 39.346959; -75.536639 Coordinates: 39°20′49″N75°32′12″W / 39.346959°N 75.536639°W / 39.346959; -75.536639
Area91.8 acres (37.2 ha)
Built1780 (1780)
Architectural styleFederal
NRHP reference No. 83003506 [1]
Added to NRHPOctober 17, 1983

Short's Landing Hotel Complex is a historic hotel and farm complex located near Smyrna, Kent County, Delaware. The complex consists of five contributing buildings and one contributing structure. They are the brick hotel (c. 1780), a frame Federal-style mansion house (c. 1800), a small abandoned factory, and an extensive collection of outbuildings including a stable, granaries and storage sheds. The hotel is a two-story, five bay brick vernacular structure. The frame mansion house has a traditional center-hall, single-pile floor plan. The frame leadite factory was in operation mainly from the 1920s to the late 1940s. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Stephen G. Del Sordo (May 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Short's Landing Hotel Complex". National Park Service. and accompanying two photos