Chapter 16·Historic Sites
82A-017
Joshua Turner House 8801 Frank Tippett Road, Upper Marlboro • 1880s, 2½ story frame cross-gabled dwelling, with panelled gables and 20th-century stucco covering; elegant Victorian interior trim • Built for Baltimore entrepreneur Joshua J. Turner, this late Victorian country house has particularly fine Queen Anne style detail • Criterion 2a
82A-019
Boys’ Village of Maryland Cemetery Frank Tippett Road & Surratt’s Road, Cheltenham • 1870 and onward, concrete and granite grave markers laid out in 3 sections; cemetery currently located within Cheltenham Veterans’ Cemetery adjacent to Boys’ Village Property • Boys’ Village of Maryland was one of the earliest and largest juvenile detention and reformation centers established as the “House of Reformation and Instruction for Colored Boys;” Enoch Pratt of Baltimore was the main benefactor of the institution • Criteria 1a, 1d
82A-023 ES
Furgang Farm 10700 Furgang Road, Upper Marlboro • 1897, 2½ story T-shaped farmhouse with gable ends ornamented with fishscale shingles; complex of farm buildings; historic outbuildings include summer kitchen, dairy and carriage house • Excellent example of late Victorian farm complex in its original setting of domestic and agricultural buildings • Criteria 1a, 1d, 2a, 2e
82A-026 NR E
Bellefields & Sim Family Cemetery 13104 Duley Station Road, Upper Marlboro • 18th century, 20th-century wings; 2 story brick Georgian plantation house (Flemish bond) with exterior chimneys and flanking wings • Home of Sim family, including Colonel Joseph Sim, Revolutionary leader; from this site, American leaders observed the approach of British troops in August 1814
82A-027
Duvall Tobacco Barns North of Marlton Avenue within Rosaryville State Park • Late 19th, early 20th century; complex consists of two barns, a silo, two hay pens, and a shed • Constructed for George T. Duvall; property later deeded to the State of Maryland Department of Natural Resources for Rosaryville State Park; barns exhibit different traditional agricultural forms and materials; excellent examples of late-19th- and early-20th-century agricultural structures • Criteria 1d, 2a
82A-034 ES
Site of Ellerslie 6700 Green Grove Place, Upper Marlboro • 1895, 2½ story frame gable-roof dwelling of Colonial Revival style destroyed by fire in 2008 • Built by prominent Upper Marlboro Judge Richard B. B. Chew on site of his father’s early 19thcentury plantation house, which was also destroyed by fire in 1894 • Criteria 1c, 1d, 2a
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Approved Historic Sites and Districts Plan