Chapter 16·Historic Sites
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Gallant House 3124 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi • Mid-19th century, 1920s, multipart, frame gable-roof house with 2½ story antebellum main block and 20th-century additions • Rebuilt and enlarged dwelling with Craftsman-style decorative detail including exposed rafter ends, shed dormers, and a rubble-stone chimney • Criteria 2a, 2e, 2d
62-003 E ES
Oaklands & Cemetery 13700 Oaklands Manor Drive, Laurel • c. 1798, 3 story brick mansion with elegant Georgian ornamentation and 1870s mansard roof • Built for Richard Snowden, of the wealthy Snowden family, prominent iron manufacturers; fine example of Federal-style architecture • Criteria 1c, 1d ,2a, 2c, 2e
62-004 NR
Snow Hill 13301 Laurel Bowie Road, Laurel (M-NCPPC) • c. 1800, two-story brick plantation house with gambrel roof and fine late-Georgian ornamentation; incorporated parts of earlier house destroyed by fire • Built for Samuel Snowden, another member of the Snowden iron working family; atypical roof profile
62-006 NHL
Montpelier & Cemetery 9650 Muirkirk Road, Laurel (M-NCPPC) • c. 1783, 5-part Georgian mansion with 2½ story hip-roof center block and semi-octagonal wings; elegant interior detail; domed-roof summer house on the grounds • Built for Major Thomas Snowden; 20th-century home of Breckinridge Long, Assistant Secretary of State under Wilson and Roosevelt; outstanding example of formal Georgian architecture; only surviving 18th-century summer house in Maryland
62-008
Muirkirk Furnace Site 7011 Muirkirk Road, Beltsville • 1847 (established) site of iron furnace now hidden by a modern industrial complex; one kiln remains • During peak years produced 7000 tons of pig iron/year; the furnace property covered 10 acres, including houses for the workmen and the original supply store; founded by Ellicott family and operated by Coffin family until 1920 • Criteria 1a, 1c, 1d
62-010
Briarley Academy (Old Hotel) 11777 Old Baltimore Pike, Beltsville • c. 1860s, 1911, multipart frame structure which includes the original 19th-century dwelling, a two-story hip-roof building with a five-bay main facade, and numerous additions • Originally a farmhouse built by George Humes, converted into a resort by Benjamin B. Bradford in 1911; bought in 1929 by the Montague family & leased to Cpt. Sydney Lodge who established a military academy there • Criteria 1d, 2e
Approved Historic Sites and Districts Plan
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