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.