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COLONIAL MANSIONS OF MARYLAND AND DELAWARE
JOHN MARTIN HAMMOND
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COLONIAL MANSIONS OF MARYLAND AND DELAWARE
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COLONIAL MANSIONS OF MARYLAND AND DELAWARE
BY JOHN MARTIN HAMMOND
WITH SIXTY-FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS
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PHILADELPHIA & LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
1914
COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1914
PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A.
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PREFACE
SOME people collect old furniture, some old books. I for many years have been a collector of old houses within easy travelling distance of my home in Balti- more, and the best of my finds are to be found in this 1 book. He who would collect old houses must possess much enthusiasm, a determination that will not be dis- couraged, and a fine power of walking. Fully one-half of the points that he visits because of hearsay will be found to be without interest, and of the others that he seeks out only a few insignificant facts will at first be ascertainable. A continual source of surprise to one who searches for colonial homes is how little is known about them even in the immediate neighborhood in which they have stood for so many years.
The material in this book has been gathered from personal visits and studies at first hand of the houses described. Much of the literary matter has come from private papers and from the recollections of the older generation of the descendants of builders of Maryland and Delaware mansions. The photographs I have made myself. I wish to make acknowledgment of inspira- tion and help gained from certain indefatigable workers in history, whose researches have gone into almost every nook of the field in Maryland and Delaware. Any one who delves into Maryland archives will be sure to come across the path of Mrs. Hester Dorsey Richardson, one of the first authorities on Maryland genealogy. Much
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of the available data of the history of Maryland and Delaware will be found in the voluminous writings of John Thomas Scharff, particularly in his "History of Maryland " and his " History of Delaware." No more complete sectional history was ever published than Joshua D. Warfield's "Founders of Howard and Anne Arundel Counties." The annals of Southern Maryland have been gathered together and told in a most scholarly fashion by James Walter Thomas in " Chronicles of Saint Mary's County."
In the making of this book I have had certain def- inite ends. I wished to call attention, first, to the many beautiful colonial survivals to be found in Maryland and Delaware. Then through the photography and re- production of certain architectural details (such as, in particular, doorways), I have hoped to bring sugges- tion to those about to build homes of the present day. Finally I have laid some stress on family history that the descendants of old families in the two States might feel an especially close drawing to these shrines of the life of yesterday.
The work of gathering together the photographs and data presented in the following pages has meant much tramping, buggy riding and boating,-the first a no light task with a fifteen pound camera,-but it has been a labor of love. I wish to acknowledge the valuable assistance of my friend, Michael Warner Hewes, Jr., in the preparation of several of my chapters, particu- larly those relating to Eastern Shore points.
J. M. H.
BALTIMORE, MD.,
July, 1914.
CONTENTS
MARYLAND
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CHASE HOUSE
ANNAPOLIS.
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FAMILIES: CHASE, LLOYD, HARWOOD, RIDOUT
HAMMOND or HARWOOD HOUSE .. ANNAPOLIS
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FAMILIES: HAMMOND, PINKNEY, CHASE, LOCKERMAN, HARWOOD
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PACA HOUSE
ANNAPOLIS
36
FAMILIES:
PACA, SCHAAF, NETH, BLAND, KENNEDY, SWANN
BRICE HOUSE.
ANNAPOLIS
45
FAMILIES: BRICE, STEPHEN, MARTIN, ROBB
RIDOUT HOUSE.
ANNAPOLIS
60
FAMILY: RIDOUT
SCOTT HOUSE.
ANNAPOLIS
68
FAMILIES: SCOTT, KEY, BIRNEY, CLAUDE, SISTERS OF MERCY, SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME
BORDLEY or RANDALL HOUSE ... ANNAPOLIS
72
FAMILIES: BORDLEY, RANDALL
WHITEHALL
SANDY POINT, ANNE ARUN-
DEL COUNTY
77
FAMILIES: SHARPE, RIDOUT, STORY
MONTPELIER
LAUREL, PRINCE GEORGE'S
COUNTY.
88
FAMILIES: SNOWDEN, JENKINS,
TAYLOR, BLAKEMAN,
PENDLETON,
VON SCHRADER.
OAKLANDS.
CONTEE STATION,
PRINCE
GEORGE'S COUNTY
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96
FAMILIES: SNOWDEN, CONTEE, BOLLING, HOOFF
BURLEIGH HOWARD COUNTY 105
FAMILY: HAMMOND
DOUGHOREGAN MANOR.
HOWARD COUNTY
110
FAMILY: CARROLL
HAMPTON
BALTIMORE COUNTY
131
FAMILY: RIDGELY
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TULIP HILL
WEST RIVER, ANNE ARUNDEL
COUNTY
138
FAMILIES: GALLOWAY, MAXCEY, MARKOE, HUGHES, MURRAY, PARKER
CEDAR PARK
WEST RIVER, ANNE ARUNDEL
COUNTY
144
FAMILIES: GALLOWAY, SPRIGG, MERCER, MURRAY
RATCLIFFE MANOR.
NEAR
EASTON,
TALBOT
COUNTY.
148
FAMILIES: HOLLYDAY, GIBSON, HATHAWAY
WYE HOUSE.
TALBOT COUNTY
152
FAMILY: LLOYD
READBOURNE
QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY.
161
FAMILIES: HOLLYDAY, PERRY
BELMONT
HOWARD COUNTY
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166
FAMILIES: DORSEY, HANSON
MOUNT AIRY
CROOME, PRINCE GEORGE'S
COUNTY
184
FAMILIES: CALVERT, DUVALL
BELAIR.
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY .. 199
FAMILIES: OGLE, BOWIE, WOODWARD
BLAKEFORD.
QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY.
. 205
FAMILIES: DECOURCY, BLAKE, WRIGHT, THOM
BLOOMINGDALE
QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY.
211
FAMILIES: HARRIS, WALLIS, DUDLEY
MONTMORENCI.
BALTIMORE COUNTY
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216
FAMILIES: WORTHINGTON, CONRAD, LEHR
BELVOIR.
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY
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219
FAMILIES: Ross, MAYNADIER, WORTHINGTON, POLUYANSKI
PLAIN DEALING
TALBOT COUNTY
225
FAMILIES: CHAMBERLAINE, LOCKERMAN, HARDCASTLE
BEVERLY.
SOMERSET COUNTY
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FAMILY: DENNIS
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SOTTERLY
ST. MARY'S COUNTY
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FAMILIES: BOWLES, PLATER, BRISCOE, SATTERLEE
DEEP FALLS
ST. MARY'S COUNTY
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FAMILY: THOMAS
DELAWARE
AMSTEL HOUSE.
NEW CASTLE
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FAMILIES: VAN DYKE, MOODY, BURNHAM, HAY
DICKINSON HOUSE
KENT COUNTY
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FAMILIES: DICKINSON, LOGAN
KENSEY JOHNS HOUSE
NEW CASTLE
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FAMILIES: JOHNS, STOCKTON, MOORE
LOOCKERMAN HOUSE
DOVER
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FAMILIES: LOOCKERMAN, BRADFORD, CULBRETH
READ HOUSE
NEW CASTLE
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FAMILIES: READ, COUPER, SMITH
RIDGELY HOUSE
DOVER
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FAMILY: RIDGELY
STEWART HOUSE
NEW CASTLE
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FAMILIES: VAN DYKE, DU PONT, JANVIER, LAMBSON, STEWART
THOMAS HOUSE.
NEW CASTLE
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FAMILIES: THOMAS, READ, THOMAS
ILLUSTRATIONS
MARYLAND
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WHITEHALL
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY
EXTERIOR
Frontispiece
ST. PAUL'S RECTORY BALTIMORE
EXTERIOR
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STEMMER HOUSE
BALTIMORE COUNTY
EXTERIOR
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CHASE HOUSE
ANNAPOLIS
ENTRANCE.
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SHUTTER CARVING
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PALLADIAN WINDOW. 22
HAMMOND HOUSE
ANNAPOLIS
ENTRANCE
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SOFA OF AMERICAN EMPIRE PERIOD.
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PACA HOUSE
ANNAPOLIS
EXTERIOR
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BRICE HOUSE
ANNAPOLIS
MANTEL IN DRAWING-ROOM
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EXTERIOR.
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RIDOUT HOUSE
ANNAPOLIS
ENTRANCE
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SCOTT HOUSE ANNAPOLIS
EXTERIOR.
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ENTRANCE HALL
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WHITEHALL
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY
FROM THE GARDEN.
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ENTRANCE TO PARLOUR.
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ENTRANCE, INTERIOR CARVING
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MONTPELIER PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
REAR VIEW
90
SUMMER HOUSE
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GARDEN
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OAKLANDS
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
CHINA CUPBOARD
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STAIRWAY 98
BURLEIGH
HOWARD COUNTY
EXTERIOR
106
GARDEN ENTRANCE. 108
DOUGHOREGAN
HOWARD COUNTY
FROM THE REAR
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GARDEN ENTRANCE 120
HOMEWOOD
BALTIMORE
EXTERIOR.
122
HAMPTON
BALTIMORE COUNTY
CENTRAL PORTION 132
CUPOLA
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SPRING HILL
HOWARD COUNTY
EXTERIOR
134
TULIP HILL
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY
ENTRANCE. 138
GARDEN ENTRANCE
140
HALL AND STAIR
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RATCLIFFE
TALBOT COUNTY
SHELL CUPBOARD 148
ALCOVE WINDOW 148
GARDEN ENTRANCE 150
FROM THE GARDEN
150
BELMONT
HOWARD COUNTY
EXTERIOR
168
ENTRANCE
178
MOUNT AIRY
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
EXTERIOR
188
RIVERDALE
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
EXTERIOR
192
MOUNT AIRY
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
FIREPLACE IN DINING-ROOM
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THE SIDEBOARD.
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BELAIR
PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY
CENTRAL PORTION 200
FROM THE TERRACE 202
MAIN STAIRWAY
202
BLAKEFORD
QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY
ALL-THE-YEAR-ROUND SUMMER HOUSE.
206
FROM THE EAST
206
BLOOMINGDALE
QUEEN ANNE'S COUNTY
EXTERIOR
212
SIDE PORCH
214
STEMMER HOUSE
BALTIMORE COUNTY
GARDEN ENTRANCE.
214
MONTMORENCI
BALTIMORE COUNTY
EXTERIOR.
216
THE WINDING STAIR 216
PARLOUR CORNER
216
BELVOIR
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY
ENTRANCE
220
FROM THE SOUTH.
222
DELAWARE
AMSTEL HOUSE
NEW CASTLE
ENTRANCE.
248
KENSEY JOHNS HOUSE
NEW CASTLE
EXTERIOR.
254
RODNEY HOUSE
NEW CASTLE
EXTERIOR.
256
LOOCKERMAN HOUSE
DOVER
THE STAIRWAY.
260
A CORNER CUPBOARD
260
RIDGELY HOUSE DOVER
EXTERIOR.
268
FROM THE GARDEN 272
PARLOUR CORNER.
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THOMAS HOUSE
NEW CASTLE
ENTRANCE
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INTRODUCTION
THE scattered survivals of the colonial era of home building in Maryland and Delaware have certain great similarities of construction, but they are more closely bound together by ties of blood than by architectural detail. The colonial mansions of the latter little Com- monwealth show decided evidence of Dutch influence in their construction, while those of the former present probably as pure examples as will be found of the Eng- lish adaptation of the classic motive in building, which forms the backbone of the Georgian school. Side by side however, geographically speaking, the eastern shore of Maryland and the whole of little Delaware being isolated by the Delaware and Chesapeake bays, the two States are very closely connected genealogically. The Ridgely, Loockermann, and Johns families, to men- tion only a few, have branches in both States and have been conspicuous in the history of each.
One great distinction between the colonial homes of Maryland and Delaware relates to the comparatively unimportant matter of size. The homes of Maryland are of much bolder conception than those of Delaware. There are many reasons for this, but on the surface it is apparent that Delaware, with its unsettled early days- founded by the Dutch, wrangled over by the Swedes, and finally wrested from both of these nationalities by the strong hand of the English-would not attract as wealthy a class of settler as Maryland, nor would its
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people spring from a stock with as imperative a tradi- tion of luxurious living as those of the cavalier life in the Southern State. In point of charm and historic interest, however, one finds as much to please the imagination and the eye in the homes of Delaware as in those of any other State of the Union.
A characteristic architectural development of colonial Maryland is the wing. This is not typical of the colonial homes of Delaware. Maryland was essen- tially a slave-holding and tobacco-growing colony and the wing was a creation designed to meet the double demand for a place to house the house-servants near at hand and for an office close to the dwelling-house from which to conduct the affairs of the plantation. At first these demands were met by a small isolated structure close to the big house. Then came a covered passage- way from the house. Finally the wing as a concrete part of the whole became an accepted convention.
In both Maryland and Delaware, as well as Penn- sylvania, brick was the favorite material used for build- ing. Incidentally in New England frame was usual. Yet stone and brick were plentiful in New England, and wood in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Just why there should be this characteristic and undeniable difference in choice of building stuff is one of those things " no fellow hopes to know." Temperamental variances would seem to be a better explanation, even though a somewhat ambiguous one, than an attempt to blame it
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on the climate; for wood is certainly a less appropriate building stuff for a cold northerly climate than stone.
The homes of Maryland and Delaware were always built on a navigable water-course and usually with the front of the house toward the water. There were good reasons for this. Our ancestors did not have good roads and they were not especially fond of walking. Again the water-courses were safer routes of travel than the forests where hostile savages might do mischief. As late as 1750, indeed, the fear of Indian attack had not
left Annapolis, the capital of Maryland. Follow the Delaware up from the Atlantic and diverge into almost any of the tributaries of this body fifty miles or so above its mouth, and you will find the colonial houses of Dela- ware. Penetrate into southern Maryland by the Pa- tuxent or go up the Severn upon which Annapolis was situated and in these reaches of land will be found the colonial mansions of Maryland.
The period of fine home building in Maryland and Delaware extended from about 1735 to the end of the eighteenth century. It was not until the beginning of this stretch of time that a really wealthy class had been developed in either of the two colonies. Now the planter came into his own. His acres were a " going concern," a concern that probably paid larger dividends in pro- portion than the great bulk of those commercial ventures which have been born in the present day. His own work was little more than casual supervision; two or three
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months in the year he would devote to the planting and the cutting, and the rest of the time was his own, over- seers taking the mass of small details from his shoulders. It was at this time that he began to build himself a beautiful home, that Annapolis in Maryland and Dover and New Castle in Delaware became social capitals, and that the lawyer class-made up chiefly of leisured men -attained that brilliance of forensic and intellectual achievement which was characteristic of the bar of these two States before the Revolution.
The typical Maryland colonial mansion, using this word to mean a pretentious dwelling, was a large central building with wings, surrounded by a number of smaller dwellings for servants and overseers. It was usually two stories in height and occasionally, though very rarely, three, and it was made after designs sent from London.
This interesting question as to who were the archi- tects of the Maryland and Delaware houses has received investigation from the late T. Henry Randall, of the Randall House, Annapolis, Maryland, an aged man at his death several years ago, an architect himself, and a life-long resident in the traditions of the aristocratic ancient city, and his opinion expressed several times in his writings and in his conversation coincided with the last sentence above. The planter was his own architect and builder, securing his plans from good authorities in England and patiently and carefully following them
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after they were secured. The reputation for smartness and fashionableness of Annapolis just before the Revo- lution drew to it some architects from the other side of the water, but they were never numerically a large class. A book of designs from which many of the old doorways and interior details of the mansions of Maryland and Delaware were evidently copied is to be found, among other places, in the British Museum in London and bears the title, " The British Architects or Builders Treasury, by Abraham Swan, Architect. London, MDCCVII." It was from such sources as this that our forefathers drew their inspirations.
Even in the town houses in Annapolis, where space was more confined, the buildings retained their wings and their aspect of generosity of mass, the chief differ- ence between town and country being that in the country there were more out-buildings. Each plantation house was its own store, as the merchant class in Maryland was small and each house had a private wharf where goods were received from vessels from Europe. The greater planters owned the schooners in which barter was carried on with the mother country.
The decoration of the homes was done by hand by intelligent servants trained to the work or by those artisans whom chance, misfortune, or adventure sent to the New World.
Despite the mildness of the climate in Maryland and Delaware and the severity of the summers the
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houses were built without piazzas. Sometimes there would be a covered stoop at the entrance, but the Eng- lish tradition in this regard was carefully followed. It was not until after the end of the eighteenth century that the porch as a place of sufficient size for the family to take the air was introduced. The grounds around the houses were almost always carefully terraced and, usually, toward the river. This gave a splendid space on which to stroll of humid evenings, and summer- houses in the gardens were very common.
A distinguishing feature of the builders of the colonial mansions in both Maryland and Delaware seems to have been their love of gardens. After the planter had built his house, he always chose a sunny spot of ground to devote to flowers and box-bushes, these latter guarding the sides of formally planned gravel walks.
Just how long did it take our forefathers to build one of these homes? Probably about four years on the average if there was no interruption. We know that two years after the Chase House in Annapolis, Maryland, was started the outside of the house was completed. Skilled labor was scarce and the builders of those days did their work with a care and a regard to permanence which does not mark all modern home erection. The timbers of Tulip Hill, West River, Maryland, are heavy enough for the keel of a large ship, and the thick walls of the quaint Ridgely House, Dover, Delaware, would
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make a whole city block of two-story modern brick houses.
When our forefathers built a fine house how much did it cost them? The Chase House, Annapolis, when almost completed was sold by Samuel Chase for nearly five hundred pounds sterling, of Great Britain, and twenty-four hundred pounds current, while the purchase price for the lot on which the house stood was one hundred pounds sterling. When Ninian Pinkney sold his beautiful home opposite the Chase House to Jere- miah Townely Chase in 1811, the consideration was three thousand, five hundred dollars, of the United States mint, the purchasing power of a dollar being much greater then than now. Whatever our fore- fathers' homes may have cost them when new, it is lamentably true that until very recent years many of them were sold for the proverbial song, and rag-time at that.
Of nearly every old house that one visits, it is proudly asserted that the bricks were brought over from England, usually as ballast for the ship it is said, or as the result of a direct order for such a commodity. This is a tradition that seems to have no settled home. It can be heard in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Georgia, yet there is not a single bill of lading recorded in Mary- land which shows brick as an item of import, and the only pertinent information in the author's possession
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upon this moot question is the recollection of certain members of the Snowden family of Maryland of having seen passages in old letters that referred to brick having been brought from England for the building of Birm- ingham. These letters were destroyed by the fire which carried away this beautiful manor house. The fire did not destroy the brick in entirety and, to be sure, they are of size and texture not resembling any other old brick in Maryland. It would seem that as a rule, how- ever, the popular tradition of imported brick is without foundation, though one hesitates to contravene a general opinion so well established. But the colonists needed more important things from England than brick to ballast a ship, and there was good clay in this country. Governor Sharpe had his own brick-yard to assist in the building of Whitehall, Maryland. It is probable that the planters as a class were their own brick-makers.
Around the old homes of Maryland and Delaware hang many traditions often scattered to various quarters to be gathered together one by one. Sometimes one finds a beautiful colonial homestead which seems to strive terribly to unfold to you the story of its past but for which you miss just the word which will make all intelligible to you. There comes to mind in this con- nection the Stemmer House, near Baltimore, about which records cannot be found to connect its history from its erection just before the Revolution by the man
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from whom it took its name with its acquisition not long after the opening of the nineteenth century by Robert Howard. It is now owned and occupied by Miss Sallie Hays, the grand-daughter of Robert Howard, and lately housed, also, the family of Miss Hays's cousin, Mrs. E. B. Hall. This old homestead is one of the finest examples of colonial architecture in Maryland, and yet it is to be doubted if more than two dozen people outside of its immediate neighborhood know of its exist- ence. It consists of a central building with wings, though the wings are not developed to the full type which marked most of the homes of Maryland of this period. It is large, and contains very beautiful· interior carving. The stairway which leads from the rear of the usual central hall is of notable grace, winding to the second floor in an airy curve with a window lighting its course midway and with hardwood stairs and with slender mahogany pilasters. In its general design it resembles the stair of Montmorenci, the Worthington homestead in the Worthington Valley, Maryland.
The builder of this mansion, it has been asserted, was a sea-captain who was so wedded to the ways of the sea that he had a hammock slung in his bedroom on the second floor and slept in this in preference to a bed- stead which a land-lubber might have chosen. In proof. of this, two large hooks are shown you in this room from which a hammock might have been slung. The
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grounds around the house were carefully terraced and in the rear was a garden.
The era of fine home building in Maryland reached its finest flower in Annapolis, as would be supposed from the social pre-eminence of this little capital, just before the Revolution. In southern Maryland, the scene of the original settlement of the State, are to be found homes even antedating the Georgian period of building, some very pretentious and all equally difficult of access because of the poor railroad facilities of this part of the State. Among the charming homes in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, of which an extended story has not been told in the body of the book are: Tudor Hall, Mrs. Joseph H. Key's place; Ellenborough, an- other Key house; Cremona, which has been inherited by Miss Eliza Thomas, of Baltimore; Saint Cuthbert's, the home of Mrs. Walter Briscoe; and Portobello, opposite the historic town-site of St. Mary's, now the possession of Mrs. Hyatt.
There may be mentioned, too, Rose Hill, Chancel- lor's Hope and Pamonky, in Charles County; Rane- lagh, the Contee place, Brookefield, Poplar Hill, Bald Eagle, the Waring homestead, Acquasco and Matta- poni, in Prince George's County; the Hermitage in Queen Anne's County; Plimhimmon and Myrtle Grove in Talbot County; the Lee House, Rehoboth, in Dor- chester County; Success Farm, in Cecil County; the
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Dairy Farm, the Hall homestead, in Harford County. All of these places were in preservation a few years ago.
Among the interesting colonial homes in Delaware not treated fully in the text are: Belmont Hall, near Smyrna; the Wilson House and the Corbit House at Odessa; and the Cowgill House at Dover. The Cowgill House has been very well described in a novel popular twenty years ago, " The Entailed Hat."
A long chapter might be written of the beautiful colonial homes in Maryland and Delaware which have passed away in the memory of the last generation.
In some of the colonial places of these two States life is lived in a state closely approximating that when the house was new. In Oakdale, Howard County, the home of former Governor Edwin F. Warfield, of Mary- land, one finds himself where the traditions of this old Maryland family are carefully maintained.
A minor triumph of colonial home building in Mary- land is the rectory of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, Baltimore, illustrated in this chapter. Erected in 1794 as the home of the spiritual director of this parish, it has never served any other purpose. It at present shelters the Rev. Dr. Arthur Kinsolving and his family. Situated at the intersection of busy Cathe- dral and Saratoga streets in the downtown section and opposite a large hotel, it draws many curious glances from Baltimoreans and strangers to the city alike.
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The life that was lived in these old homes has been pictured often by novelists and historians. It was not all cards and wine, dancing and love-making, with a little bit of duelling thrown in for good measure after breakfast as cheap romancers would have it, but one cannot help thinking that the occupants of these houses knew how to live life fully and frankly and one may be sure that they had sufficient leisure, as well, for reflec- tion and rest.
COLONIAL MANSIONS OF MARYLAND
THE CHASE HOUSE ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND CHASE-LLOYD-HARWOOD-RIDOUT
HE old Chase House, Annapolis, Maryland, as it is affectionately spoken of by residents of this quaint and delightful city, is one of the largest of the colonial man- sions which have made that place a Mecca for artists and students of architecture. It faces the Hammond House on the north side of Maryland Avenue, over which it gazes to the sleepy harbor front and the broad waters of Chesapeake Bay at the mouth of the Severn River, its three stories and a half above the pavement giving it an advantage of height over any other residence in Annapolis.
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