D. H. Springhouse | |
Location | About 6 miles (9.7 km) northeast of Bel Air on Sandy Hook Rd., Bel Air, Maryland |
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Coordinates | 39°37′17″N76°18′37″W / 39.62139°N 76.31028°W Coordinates: 39°37′17″N76°18′37″W / 39.62139°N 76.31028°W |
Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
Built | 1816 |
NRHP reference No. | 73000923 [1] |
Added to NRHP | May 8, 1973 |
D. H. Springhouse is a historic springhouse located at Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland. It is a little gray stone building set into the base of a steep hill. This is a stone springhouse with a schoolroom above, 16.5 feet by 23 feet, with one narrow wall set into the bank over several fresh springs. It was built about 1816, and the quality of stonemasonry is notable. [2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1]
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Linnwood, is a historic home located at Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland, United States. It is a large 1901 Queen Anne-influenced house consisting of a 2 1⁄2-story four-bay by four-bay frame structure with vinyl siding, a rubble stone foundation, and a hip roof with asphalt shingles. Six domestic outbuildings are arrayed behind the house, including a springhouse/greenhouse, shop building/cold storage and annex, garage, smokehouse, privy, and a modern garage. A stone gateway with iron gates is located at the road, flanking the driveway. The house's Late Victorian form and appearance resulted from a thorough remodeling in 1901 of a preexisting farmhouse, according to designs by architect D. S. Hopkins.
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Chestnut Ridge is a historic home located at Aberdeen, Harford County, Maryland. It is a two-story brick dwelling built about 1810, with an earlier frame wing. It features vernacular Federal woodwork which remains substantially intact, and Greek Revival trim. The property also includes a stone springhouse and the site of an 18th-century mill.
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Norris-Stirling House, also known as Mt. Pleasant, is a historic home located at Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland. It is composed of an early 19th-century fieldstone section and two later frame additions. In 1936, a lean-to addition and double-tiered porch were added. The property also includes a large frame bank barn and corncrib, a stone springhouse, and a garage.
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. The estate was later home to Eastern Christian College.
Sophia's Dairy is a historic home in Aberdeen, Harford County, Maryland, United States. It is a large center-hall brick house, 64 by 45 feet, with a low stone wing, built in 1768 in the Georgian style. The interior features a double stair which extends upward on the west wall from both ends of the hall. It continues east in one short flight, then separates and parallels the lower flight to the second story hall.
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