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]
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| Location | 6180 Hay Point Landing Road, near Smyrna, Delaware |
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| Coordinates | 39°20′49″N 75°32′12″W / 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
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ 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