FIRST FLOOR Complete NRHP Form Entry Foyer The first story has a stair hall in the southwest comer, a room in the northwest comer, and a short passage from the stair hall to two rooms in the northeast and southeast comers. The hyphen has one room and a passage along the west side. The wing […]
by Gary Gestson
by Gary Gestson Drumeldry: Patented in 1715 and containing 225 acres, it extended from the Northwest Branch, near the Indian Spring Country Club, across Notley Road to Shannon Drive. 14201 Notley Rd. is in Drumeldry, now known as Drumeldra Hills. Coalsville or Colesville: The name “Coalsville” is first found in the 1804 Montgomery County tax assessment records, a […]
by Gary Gestson Notley is a single-story, mid-century modem, ranch-style, private residence designed in 1945 by Montgomery County, Maryland architect, John A. d’Epagnier, A.I.A., that captures the American design movement by intermingling design, nature, and a communal lifestyle. The home combined elements of Frank Lloyd Wright’s prairie home style and Usonian style with influences from the Bauhaus/ International […]
by Gary Gestson From 1913 into the 1920’s, while being raised on a Far Hills, New Jersey estate as the son of caretakers, John A. d’Epagnier, A.I.A., dreamt big as he tended to manual chores; namely, to someday design and build his own unique home. With a high school teacher’s encouragement and financial support from his two siblings, […]
by Gary Gestson 
