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United States historic place
Short's Landing Hotel Complex
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location6180 Hay Point Landing Road, near Smyrna, Delaware
Coordinates39°20′49″N 75°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
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.

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

References

  1. ^ "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
U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Delaware
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