Short's Landing Hotel Complex is a historic hotel and farm complex located near Smyrna,

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. The complex consists of five contributing buildings and one contributing structure. They are the brick hotel (c. 1780), a frame

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

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Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Delaware Federal architecture in Delaware Houses completed in 1780 Houses in Kent County, Delaware National Register of Historic Places in Kent County, Delaware {{Delaware-NRHP-stub