Spye Park (White Plains, Maryland)

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Spye Park
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LocationPadgett Road, White Plains, Maryland
Coordinates 38°35′34″N76°57′17″W / 38.59278°N 76.95472°W / 38.59278; -76.95472 Coordinates: 38°35′34″N76°57′17″W / 38.59278°N 76.95472°W / 38.59278; -76.95472
Area8 acres (3.2 ha)
Built1767 (1767)
Architectural styleColonial, Federal
NRHP reference No. 90001523 [1]
Added to NRHPOctober 4, 1990

Spye Park is a historic home located at White Plains, Charles County, Maryland, United States. It is a modestly scaled, 1+12-story, three-bay frame Colonial dwelling built about 1767. The house's present plan and appearance is the result of a series of 19th- and early-20th-century alterations to the original structure, which was a rectangular, one-room-deep building with end chimneys. Also on the property is a timber-framed tobacco barn, a former animal barn, a cornhouse, a poultry house/machine shed, and a wellhouse. [2]

Spye Park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. [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. J. Richard Rivoire (May 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Spye Park" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.