|
Brooklandwood
|
|
|
Brooklandwood, December 2009
|
|
|
|
|
| Location: | Falls Rd., Brooklandville, Maryland |
|---|---|
| Area: | 62 acres (25 ha) |
| Built: | 1790 |
| Architectural style: | Early Republic, Palladian |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 72000567[1] |
| Added to NRHP: | February 11, 1972 |
Brooklandwood, or Brookland Wood, is a historic home located on the grounds of St. Paul`s School for Boys, in Brooklandville, Baltimore County, Maryland. It is a 2 1⁄2-story, five-bay dwelling. The central block and two later wings are brick, painted white. The central-block section is original and built about 1790, with porches and Palladian-style windows forming a symmetrical, functional unit. It was owned by a number of prominent individuals including Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Carroll's daughter and son-in-law Mary and Richard Caton parents of Emily Caton who married John MacTavish the British Consul to Baltimore in the early 1800s,[2] and Isaac Emerson, the inventor of Bromo-Seltzer.[3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[1]
|
||||||||||||||||||||