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Location505 Wye Hall Dr., near Queenstown, Maryland
Coordinates 38°53′20″N76°7′7″W / 38.88889°N 76.11861°W / 38.88889; -76.11861
Area212 acres (86 ha)
Built1936 (1936)
ArchitectTilden, Register and Pepper
Architectural styleGeorgian Revival
NRHP reference No. 15000759 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 2, 2015

Wye Hall is a historic house at 505 Wye Hall Drive in rural southern Queenstown, Queen Anne's County, Maryland. It is located on the north side of the eastern point of Wye Island. It is a handsome Georgian Revival house, built in 1936 to a design by Tilden, Register and Pepper, for businessman William Stillwell. It is set on a series of landscaped terraces, at the location of the plantation mansion of American Founding Father and Governor of Maryland William Paca. [2] William Paca is buried at the family cemetery there. The Paca residence burned down in 1879. [3] [4] The University of Maryland, College Park conducted archeological work there. [5]

The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. [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. "NRHP nomination for Wye Hall" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
  3. Grzincic, Barbara (2005). "Court of Special Appeals awards Wye Hall contractor right to". The Daily Record.
  4. Hester D. Richardson (1995). Side-Lights on Maryland History. Clearfield Company. ISBN   978-0-8063-0296-6.
  5. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-06-16. Retrieved 2009-03-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)