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Dorsey Chapel (Brookland Methodist Church) 10704 Brookland Road Glenn Dale (M-NCPPC)
70-030 Arthur Magruder House 5302 Ridgely Run Road Glenn Dale Built c. 1912, the Arthur Magruder House is a twostory, T-shaped cross-gabled frame dwelling, with projecting bays, large veranda and rear kitchen wing. It was built for Arthur H. S. Magruder on part of the family farm on Annapolis Road. In 2010 it was moved to its current location across the street as part of the development of a residential subdivision and will be rehabilitated to serve again as a single-family home.
Built in 1900, Dorsey Chapel is a front-gabled meetinghouse-style church with a steeply pitched roof. The chapel has gothic-arch windows, a turned rooftop finial and ornamental shingles covering the gable front. The building was built to serve the African-American farming community of Brookland; it is the most highly ornamented of the county’s turn-of-the-twentiethcentury black Methodist chapels. Dorsey Chapel was closed for services in 1971. Acquired by M-NCPPC in 1992, it was restored and has been open to the public for tours and events since 1996.
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