Dowden's Luck

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Dowden's Luck
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Location18511 Beallsville Road (MD 109), Poolesville, Maryland
Coordinates 39°9′35″N77°24′58″W / 39.15972°N 77.41611°W / 39.15972; -77.41611 Coordinates: 39°9′35″N77°24′58″W / 39.15972°N 77.41611°W / 39.15972; -77.41611
Area8 acres (3.2 ha)
Built1824 (1824)
Architectural styleFederal
NRHP reference No. 88002143 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 10, 1988

Dowden's Luck is a historic house located at Poolesville, Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. The main house is a 2+12-story, late Federal-style frame house. Major additions were made in 1855 and 1910. Also on the property are a one-story gable-roofed stone slave quarters, a one-story gable-roofed brick smokehouse, a stone spring house, and the foundations of two barns, all built during the 1824-1850 plantation period. An overgrown terraced garden in its original configuration as constructed around 1855 stands to the west of the house. [2] Dowden's Luck was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Mary Ann Kephart (October 1987). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Dowden's Luck" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.