Chain of Title: Oct. 8, 1725 – Maryland Land Patent entitled “Bordley’s Choice” patented for Thomas Bordley, Sr. of Anne Arundel County. Bordley’s Choice containing 1014 acres is described in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, MD at PL#6/74 and by a later survey dated Aug. 5, 1825 and recorded at Liber “Y” folio 119 in the […]
by Gary Gestson The Brookeville Woolen Mill Worker’s House is a stone dwelling house that is representative of the mid-eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century plantation environment in central Maryland. It may have been constructed as early as 1760-to-1780 and it may have held one or more mill worker families on 2 levels in the 1800s. There is evidence that […]
by Gary Gestson From Way Back When in Sudbrook Park by Beryl Frank, 1997 “This house will always be known as the Howard House. The Howards lived here fifty-one years,” said the present owner, “and we have lived here for thirty-six years.” Interestingly enough, while many residents of Sudbrook Park do indeed refer to 607 Sudbrook Road as […]
by Gary Gestson 
Pike Hall c. 1789 This article appeared in the Herald-Mail Sunday, July 28, 1996 (and references previous ownership) In the colonial period, an early trail meandered west from the sea through the wilderness that became Washington County. This trail was incorporated into the Bank Road complex that joined the National Pike at Cumberland. A section of this early […]
by Gary Gestson 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 On the northwest corner of Sharpsburg’s town square stands a handsome stone house with a raised-seam metal roof, its portico resting on the sidewalk before it. The house features five bays wide, two stories high, with a finely coursed limestone façade, and flat stone arches above its windows, with less formal rubble stonework on the […]
by Gary Gestson 
