82A-004 Trinity Episcopal Church Rectory 6112 Ivy Ridge Court Upper Marlboro vicinity
82A-008 James Christmas House 7201 Crain Highway Upper Marlboro
Trinity Church Rectory is a two-story frame dwelling of I-house form with a side addition at one gable end and a large rear wing forming a T. It was built at the end of the Civil War in 1865 when Henry Kershaw was serving as rector of Trinity Church. This house served as the rector’s residence until 1892, when the Vestry purchased the A.T. Brooke house within the town of Upper Marlboro and converted it into the new rectory. The old rectory was sold in 1892 as a private residence, and from 1901 to the present has been in the ownership of the Wyvill family. The house was renovated in the mid-1990s.
Built circa 1897 for James Miller Christmas, who owned a sawmill and lumber company in Croom and who established himself in the county as a successful businessman, this two-and-one-half-story Queen Anne-style house exemplifies the economic prosperity Prince George’s County experienced at the turn of the twentieth century.
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