Loats Female Orphan Asylum of Frederick City

Loats Female Orphan Asylum of Frederick City
Location 24 E. Church St., Frederick, Maryland
Coordinates 39°24′54″N 77°24′34″W / 39.41500°N 77.40944°WCoordinates: 39°24′54″N 77°24′34″W / 39.41500°N 77.40944°W
Built 1824
Architect Unknown
Architectural style Federal
Governing body Private
NRHP Reference #

72000580

[1]
Added to NRHP October 10, 1972

Loats Female Orphan Asylum of Frederick City is a historic home and former orphanage building located at Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland.

It is an imposing 2 12-story Federal Flemish bond brick mansion with a sloping gable roof. The small addition on the east end of the house served as an office for the original owner, John Baltzell, M.D. (1774–1854). The house's third owner, John Loats (first president of the Frederick and Pennsylvania Line railroad, headquartered in Frederick.), established in his will of 1879, the Loats Female Orphan Asylum of Frederick City. It currently serves as headquarters to the Historical Society of Frederick County.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.[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". The Historical Society of Frederick County. Maryland Historical Trust. 2008-11-21.

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