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Rosemount (Skinner-Martin House) 13201 Martin Road Brandywine
86B-005 Nottingham-Myers Methodist Church 15601 Brooks Church Road Croom Built in 1939, Nottingham-Myers United Methodist Church is a two-part building: a front-gabled, meetinghouse-style building with a corner bell tower and an attached south wing. The main section of the present church was built by members of the local black Methodist community during the pastorship of Frederick Myers. In 1983 a south wing, designed to complement the original building (at left in the photograph) was built. Nottingham-Myers Church has remained a focal point for the African-American population of the Croom-Nottingham region. It has strong historical connections to the Mansfield plantation and to the work of the Freedmen’s Bureau.
Rosemount was built in 1835 for Benjamin Skinner and attached to an earlier small dwelling that now forms a kitchen wing; it is a two-part side-gabled frame dwelling. The main block is two stories high, with an I-house plan and particularly fine early Greek Revival interior detail. Rosemount was sold in 1882 to E. P. Martin, and several alterations to both the main block and older wing were undertaken during the Martin family ownership.
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