W of Georgetown at DE 526 and DE 529, Georgetown, Delaware. County/parish: Sussex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 01, 1982. NRIS 82002361.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Short Homestead, also known as the James Baxter House, is a historic home and farm located near Georgetown, Sussex County, Delaware. The earlier section is dated to the mid-18th century, and is a two-story, three-bay, double-pile brick structure. A two-story, two-bay frame wing was built in the mid-19th century. Both sections have gable roofs. The house was once the center of a 500-acre plantation. The house was "modernized" in the late-19th century.
The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75324689