Mattapax

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Mattapax
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Location106 Shipping Creek Rd., Stevensville, Maryland
Coordinates 38°54′40″N76°20′54″W / 38.91111°N 76.34833°W / 38.91111; -76.34833 Coordinates: 38°54′40″N76°20′54″W / 38.91111°N 76.34833°W / 38.91111; -76.34833
Area6.6 acres (2.7 ha)
Built1760 (1760), 1949
ArchitectHogg, F. Trevor
Architectural styleColonial
NRHP reference No. 98001498 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 10, 1998

Mattapax is a historic home located at Stevensville, Queen Anne's County, Maryland, United States. It is a 1+12-story brick house, three bays wide, and one room deep, with flush brick chimneys at either end of a pitched gable roof built about 1760. In 1949 a restoration resulted in the construction of a brick wing to replace an earlier frame wing. Also on the property are a frame cottage, a large horse barn, and a frame wagon shed. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. [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. Forrest P.Chisman (September 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Mattapax" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.