Pennington Cottage

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Pennington Cottage
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LocationDeer Park Hotel Rd., Deer Park, Maryland
Coordinates 39°25′12″N79°20′0″W / 39.42000°N 79.33333°W / 39.42000; -79.33333 Coordinates: 39°25′12″N79°20′0″W / 39.42000°N 79.33333°W / 39.42000; -79.33333
Arealess than one acre
Architectural styleShingle Style
NRHP reference No. 76000997 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 17, 1976

The Pennington Cottage is a historic home located at Deer Park, Garrett County, Maryland, United States. It is a 2+12-story, late-19th-century Shingle-Style frame structure, with a gambrel roof and a one-story porch that stretches across the principal facade and along portions of the sides. The house is entirely covered with dark wood shingles. It was built as a part of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Deer Park Hotel complex, as the summer home of Baltimore architect Josias Pennington (d. 1929). [2]

Pennington Cottage was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and then was "by far the best preserved of the [hotel] complex" structures [1] It is currently used as a bed-and-breakfast inn. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Ronald L. Andrews (May 1975). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pennington Cottage" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  3. "Deer Park Inn" . Retrieved 4 January 2021.