The Shannon Hotel
			This building, located at 1 East Main Street, was built before 1759 and was the store of Thomas Montgomery, and after his death in 1765, the store of the firm of Willday and Montgomery.  In ca. 1800, it was converted into an inn, under the ownership of William Shannon.  It has been known ever since as "The Shannon's Hotel".  The structure is a 42 by 29 foot, three-bay, two-story residence with a Flemish-bond facade and a water table.  The exterior of this facade contains a box cornice with plain molded trim, panelled shutters are found on the first floor, with louvered blinds on the second floor level.  Unlike the other private dwellings, the pent eave was constructed across the original three-bay facade.  The interior of this residence was designed in a modified Penn's Plan.  The rectangluar entry hall has a closed-string staircase with short, turned balusters, square newels, and unusual diagoal beaded sheathing on the body of the staircase.  Behind this entry hall is a narrow room with a large fireplace flanked by panelled side cupboards. Panelling and heavy cornices in the second-story rooms are confined to the fireplace walls above the center corner chimneys.  In keeping with the local tradition, the fireplaces are constructed with a recessed fire box within a larger opening. A small, two-bay clapboard addition maintained as a store was added to the original three-bay structure in the nineteenth century.
	On May 21, 1735, when James James, Jr., a village merchant, conveyed this original ten-acre lot to John Welsh, a blacksmith of New Castle Hundred, several tenements had already been erected.  At Welsh's request, the property was conveyed to his thre daughrers - Rebecca Janvier, Susannah John and Frances Alrichs on September 11, 1739. Adjacent to the house lot is a small, two-story frame dwelling house with painted roof-line trim, a large stucco residence, and a two-story, three-bay dwelling house with a box cornice and molded trim. Source: Christiana Historic District Nomination, National Register of Historic Places, 1974.