Uniontown Maryland – Maryland’s National Register Properties

The Uniontown Historic District comprises nearly the entirety of Uniontown, a small community in rural Carroll County, Maryland.  The district contains a remarkably cohesive and well-preserved collection of houses, commercial buildings, churches, and schools reflecting the development of this agricultural village from the turn of the 19th century through the 1930’s.  The town is laid […]

Owner’s Restoration Story – Brookeville Woolen Mill Worker’s House c.1800

House The core of this early 19th century stone dwelling was fully restored, repointed, and adapted to modern living in 1998 -to- 2000 as a 21⁄2 story historic home surrounded by a 25–acre farmland property. A modern kitchen, first floor bedroom, and a sun room were added to the core during restoration.  This 2,600 sq. […]

Brookeville Woolen Mill Worker’s House c.1800 – Chain of Title

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 […]

About Brookeville Woolen Mill Worker’s House c.1800

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 […]

About the Howard House c.1893

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 […]

MacAlpine Architectural Details From 2004 NRHP Registration Form

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 […]

NOTLEY VINTAGE IMAGES

HISTORY OF COLESVILLE, MARYLAND

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 […]

ABOUT NOTLEY

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 […]