Belmont Hall, Route 13, Smyrna, Kent County, DE

Significance: Belmont Hall, home of Thomas Collins, Brigadier-General in the American Revolution and eighth president of the Delaware State, has two late seventeenth century rear wings and a main, front block built in the third quarter of the eighteenth century. The simple rear wings are typical of their period while the main block is representative of the most elegant building in Delaware.
Survey number: HABS DE-147
Building/structure dates: 1753 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1771 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 71000223