Glenelg Country School

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Glenelg Country School
Glenelg Country School
12793 Folly Quarter Road
Ellicott City, Maryland

Information
Type Private school
Established1954
Head of schoolMatthew J. Walsh
Faculty214
Color(s)Green and white
MascotDragons
Website glenelg.org
Glenelg Manor
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Glenelg Manor
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Nearest city Glenelg, Maryland
Coordinates 39°15′07″N76°57′42″W / 39.2519°N 76.9617°W / 39.2519; -76.9617
Area50 acres (20 ha)
Built1851 (1851)
Architectural styleGothic Revival
NRHP reference No. 83002952 [1]
Added to NRHP3 February 1983

Glenelg Country School is a nonsectarian, co-educational independent day school in Howard County, Maryland, adjacent to Columbia, Maryland and between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The School offers a continuous college-preparatory program from age 2 through grade 12. GCS was founded in 1954, enrolling 35 students in grades one through seven. In the fall of 1985, the new Upper School division opened with 10 students. The first class graduated in June 1989. Today, Glenelg Country School enrolls over 750 students.

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History

The Glenelg Manor was built on a part of land patented as "Dorsey's Grove" in 1721. [2] It also included land patented by John Dorsey named "Dorseys Luck" renamed to "Howard's Resolution". [3] Glenelg Manor houses the Glenelg Country School elementary division. The original structure of the house dates from circa 1740 to the second half of the 18th century, and may have been built by Ephraim Howard. [4] [5] [6]

General Joseph Tyson built the Tudor expansion in the 1800s [3] The estate passed to Tyson's son Henry H. Tyson, followed by the Knox family in 1900. William Bladen Lowndes, son of Maryland governor Lloyd Lowndes, Jr., purchased the estate in 1915 and added amenities such as outdoor projectors, golf course, and diesel generators. After Lowndes died in 1941, the property was sold to Rowland D. and George R. Zaiser of Wilton Farm Dairy for farming. In 1956 the estate was subdivided into a smaller parcel to be leased out as a school. [7]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. [1]

Glenelg Country School

The original building was rented in 1954 when the Glenelg Country School was founded by Kingdon Gould, Jr. and his wife Mary Thorne Gould, along with Mr. and Mrs. John T. Mason, Jr., Judge James Macgill and Mr. and Mrs. William Shippen. Marjorie Dunn was the first Headmistress for Glenelg Country School, serving 1954–1956. Subsequent Headmasters/Headmistresses: Beatrice Pfefferkorn (1956–1959); Edward L. Jones (1959–1964); Peter T. Terry (1964–1966); Thomas J. Barlow (interim head in 1966 for Peter Terry); Frederic W. Rhinelander (1966–1977); Charles H. Miller, Jr. (1977–1990); Ryland O. Chapman III (1990–2007); Gregory J. Ventre (2007–2021); and Matthew J. Walsh (2021–present).

In 2014, County Executive Ken Ulman proposed CR-121-2014 in his last weeks of pre-election activities. The bill would finance eight million dollars of an expansion and revitalization of the athletic facilities, a two–story press box, grandstands and restoration of existing tennis courts and athletic center floors. It included the renovation and restoration of buildings and the Historic Manor House. [8]

Overview

Notable alumni

Athletics

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The Arts

Music and art classes begin at age 2 and continue through twelfth grade. Music classes include: chorus; recorder ensembles; bell choirs; bands; a jazz ensemble; a woodwind trio; a string quartet; Lower, Upper School plays; Middle and Upper School musicals, with 50% of Upper School students participating in the performing arts. There are music rooms in each division and a 350-seat Mulitz Theater with a scenery shop and dressing rooms.

Art classes include: painting, drawing, film and digital photography, ceramics, wood-working, metals, and other specialized classes. Each division has a studio space. The Upper School has separate 2-D and 3-D facilities and a black/white photography lab.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Howard County Historic Society. Images of America Howard County. p. 33.
  3. 1 2 Stein, Charles Francis (1972). Origin and History of Howard County Maryland (First ed.). Charles Francis Stein, Jr. p. 251.
  4. "Glenelg County School at Howard's Resolution". The Times (Ellicott City). March 31, 1965.
  5. "Glenelg Country School History". Archived from the original on December 19, 2008. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
  6. Ellen Coxe; Mark R. Edwards (March 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Elmonte" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved January 1, 2016.
  7. Howard's Roads to the Past. Howard County Sesquicentennial Celebration Committee, 2001. p. 12.
  8. "CR-121-2014" . Retrieved October 22, 2014.
  9. "Championships | MIAASports.net".
  10. "The Official Website of the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland".