Duck Creek Hundred in Smyrna in Kent County, Delaware — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

The John Cummins Mansion

116 North Main Street

Photographed by Nate Davidson, December 30, 2010

1. The John Cummins Mansion Marker

Inscription. The John Cummins Mansion has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior May 23, 1980

Erected 1980.

Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Notable Buildings. In addition, it is included in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) series list. A significant historical month for this entry is May 1817.

Location. 39° 18.124′ N, 75° 36.476′ W. Marker is in Smyrna, Delaware, in Kent County. It is in Duck Creek Hundred. It can be reached from North Main Street close to Mt. Vernon Street, on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 116 N Main St, Smyrna DE 19977, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Delaware’s Southern New Castle County. It is also in the American Mid-Atlantic,

on the Delmarva Peninsula,

and on the Eastern Seaboard. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Netherland,

one of the

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original Thirteen Colonies,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Site of Green Pottery (within shouting distance of this marker); The Delaware House (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); The Gray Box Chateau (about 500 feet away); Creighton-Jones or Cummins-Stockley House (about 500 feet away); Home of Allen McLane (about 600 feet away); Site of Old Asbury Methodist Church (about 700 feet away); Mount Olive Holiness Pentecostal Church (about 700 feet away); The Barracks (approx. 0.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Smyrna.

Also see . . .
1. Historic Homes tour. Town of Smyrna website entry (Submitted on May 31, 2021, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.)

2. Smyrna Historic District - National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form.

116 N. Main Street - Early-19th-century, "John Cummins Mansion"; with adjoining earlier 1-story with attic building; Flemish bond with interior end chimney (left chimney is now gable-roofed), 4-bay with door-window-door-window organization, with white panelled
Photographed by Nate Davidson, December 30, 2010

2. The John Cummins Mansion
shutters, and central gable end first floor and attic windows; the doors have rectangular transom and three-step brick stoops; this building originally had a 3-bay facade; the larger building is 2 1/2-story, 5-bay, facade with gable roof of tin, interior gable and brick double chimneys; Flemish bond with arched roof; six-over-six dormer windows, shuttered windows (white-panelled first floor, black-louvered second floor);the portal has a 16-paned fanlight under semicircular brick arch, 6-panelled door; small twin symmetrical gable and attic windows with first and second-floor back room windows; three-step with landing marble stoop flanked by four basement windows with iron grate; the smaller side building is now a waiting room for owner's office.

(Submitted on April 24, 2025, by Pete Skillman of Townsend, Delaware.)

Credits. This page was last revised on May 15, 2026. It was originally submitted on January 12, 2011, by Nathan Davidson of Salisbury, Maryland. This page has been viewed 1,484 times since then and 29 times this year. Last updated on May 31, 2021, by Bradley Owen of Morgantown, West Virginia. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on January 12, 2011, by Nathan Davidson of Salisbury, Maryland. • Bill Pfingsten was the editor who published this page.