Pleasant Hill (Pomfret, Maryland)

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Pleasant Hill
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Location9205 Marshall's Corner Rd., Pomfret, Maryland
Coordinates 38°35′18″N76°59′37″W / 38.58833°N 76.99361°W / 38.58833; -76.99361 Coordinates: 38°35′18″N76°59′37″W / 38.58833°N 76.99361°W / 38.58833; -76.99361
Area18 acres (7.3 ha)
Built1760 (1760)
Architectural styleSouthern Maryland House Type
NRHP reference No. 97001449 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 8, 1997

Pleasant Hill is a historic home located near Pomfret, Charles County, Maryland, United States. It is a 2+12-story, three-bay Tidewater house constructed between 1761 and 1995. The house illustrates the characteristic pattern of homes from small one- and two-room 18th-century dwellings into the larger houses that survive today. [2]

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Pleasant Hill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. [1]

History

The land on which Pleasant Hill is located was originally part of a larger tract known as Green's Inheritance. In 1713 John Spalding purchased 200 acres of Green's Inheritance for Pleasant Hill. The home was built in at least three phases.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 1 2 Betty Bird (December 1996). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Pleasant Hill" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.
  3. Rivoire, J. Richard (1990). Homeplaces: Traditional Domestic Architecture of Charles County, Maryland. La Plata, Maryl., U.S.A.: Southern Maryland Studies Center, Charles Co. Community College. p. 128.
  4. Rivoire, J. Richard (1990). Homeplaces: Traditional Domestic Architecture of Charles County, Maryland. La Plata, Maryl., U.S.A.: Southern Maryland Studies Center, Charles Co. Community College. p. 130.
  5. Ibid.
  6. Ibid. at 133
  7. "The Greens, Spaldings and Mudds," undated, author unknown, monograph believed to be part of original application for Historic Register nomination. On file at Pleasant Hill.