Short's Landing Hotel Complex

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]

Short's Landing Hotel Complex
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	6180 Hay Point Landing Road, near Smyrna, Delaware
Coordinates	39.346959°N 75.536639°W
Area	91.8 acres (37.2 ha)
Built	1780
Architectural style	Federal
NRHP reference No.	83003506[1]
Added to NRHP	October 17, 1983

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

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