Fair Meadows (Creswell, Maryland)

Fair Meadows
Nearest city Creswell, Maryland
Coordinates 39°29′57″N 76°15′58″W / 39.49917°N 76.26611°WCoordinates: 39°29′57″N 76°15′58″W / 39.49917°N 76.26611°W
Built 1868
Architect Unknown
Architectural style Second Empire
Governing body Private
NRHP Reference #

80004255

[1]
Added to NRHP November 25, 1980

Fair Meadows is a historic home located at Creswell, Harford County, Maryland. It is a 2 1⁄2-story Second Empire–style house constructed in 1868 for the last owner of Harford Furnace, Clement Dietrich. The house is constructed of irregularly laid ashlar and features a mansard roof, cupola, dormers with rounded hoods, and stone quoins. The interior has a center hall plan and includes intricate inlay designs, black and white marble tiles in the center hall, plaster ceiling ornaments and friezes, marble mantels, and original crystal chandeliers. Also on the property are the ruins of a round springhouse, a one-story stone carriage house, a brick smokehouse, and three hip-roofed coursed rubble stone outbuildings.[2] The estate was later home to Eastern Christian College.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
  2. ↑ "Maryland Historical Trust". National Register of Historic Places: Fair Meadows. Maryland Historical Trust. 2008-10-05.

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