John Churchman House | |
Location | 115 Churchman Ln., Calvert, Maryland |
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Coordinates | 39°42′46″N75°58′36″W / 39.71278°N 75.97667°W Coordinates: 39°42′46″N75°58′36″W / 39.71278°N 75.97667°W |
Area | 35 acres (14 ha) |
Built | 1745 |
Built by | Churchman, John, Jr.; Churchman, George |
Architectural style | Pennsylvania Quaker style |
NRHP reference No. | 86002337 [1] |
Added to NRHP | September 11, 1986 |
John Churchman House is a historic home located at Calvert, Cecil County, Maryland, United States. It consists of two distinct sections: a two-story, three-bay, gable-roofed brick house laid in Flemish bond dated to 1745; and a two-story, two-bay, gable-roofed house built in 1785 of uncoursed fieldstone. It was home to several generations of the locally prominent Churchman family, a number of whose members were important in the religious and educational history of Maryland-Pennsylvania Quakers in the 18th century. [2]
The John Churchman House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. [1]
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