Arlington (Westover, Maryland)

Last updated
Arlington
USA Maryland location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Usa edcp location map.svg
Red pog.svg
LocationMaryland Route 361, Westover, Maryland
Coordinates 38°7′42″N75°44′4″W / 38.12833°N 75.73444°W / 38.12833; -75.73444
Area3 acres (1.2 ha)
Built1750 (1750)
Architectural styleGeorgian
NRHP reference No. 92000588 [1]
Added to NRHPMay 21, 1992

Arlington is a historic home located at Westover, Somerset County, Maryland, and is located at the end of James Ring Road on Maryland Route 361. It is a prominent mid-18th-century Flemish bond brick dwelling. It was built around 1750 by Ephraim Wilson, the two-story, center hall, single-pile house is highlighted by glazed checkerboard brick patterns on each wall. It features a Federal period porch enriched with a cornice of paired modillion blocks and original engaged Tuscan columns against the back wall. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Manokin Presbyterian Church</span> Historic church in Maryland, United States

The Manokin Presbyterian Church is a historic church located in Princess Anne, Somerset County, Maryland. It is a 1+12-story brick structure with a three-story entrance tower on the east end. The walls of the main section were built in 1765, and the tower was added in 1888. It is one of the first organized Presbyterian Churches established in America. In 1672, a group of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians who had settled on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, petitioned the Grand Jury of Somerset County for a civil permit to hold services of worship and to have their own minister. The permission was granted, and Robert Maddox was called by the Grand Jury to preach on the third Sunday of each month, at the home of Christopher Nutter, 'at the head of the Manokin River,' the present site. In 1680 a request was sent by Colonel Stevens of Rehobeth to the Presbytery at Laggan, Ireland, for an ordained minister, and three years later, in answer to that request, the Reverend Francis Makemie, a 25-year-old, recently ordained minister, arrived in Somerset County. Under his leadership, this church, and those at Rehobeth, Pitts Creek, Snow Hill, and Wicomico were organized.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Beckford (Princess Anne, Maryland)</span> Historic house in Maryland

Beckford is a historic home located at Princess Anne, Somerset County, Maryland, United States. It is a late Georgian Flemish bond brick dwelling, five bays wide by three bays deep, two stories with a hipped roof and two large interior chimney stacks. It is situated on the crest of the slope rising from the eastern bank of the Manokin River.

The Waddy House, also known as the Williamson farm or the Jarvis Ballard house, is a historic home located at Princess Anne, Somerset County, Maryland, United States. It is a 1+12-story, Georgian-style mid-18th-century brick house supported by a raised Flemish bond brick foundation. The four-room plan dwelling measures 32 feet across by 32 feet deep. The house is one of a small collection of early brick houses surviving in Somerset County.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Waterloo (Princess Anne, Maryland)</span> Historic house in Maryland, United States

Waterloo is a historic home located at Princess Anne, Somerset County, Maryland. It is a two-story four-room plan Flemish bond brick house, Georgian-period brick house built about 1750-1760 by Henry Waggaman. It features a Corinthian columned porch with a roof top balustrade. Also on the property is a group of outbuildings including a doctor's office, a five-car garage, a frame caretaker's house, a small pump house, and the Waggaman-Riggin family cemetery. During the 19th century the property was owned by several locally prominent families until 1864, when the farm was purchased by the county for an almshouse. The county retained ownership of the property until 1948. The house was operated as a Bed & Breakfast for several years, but is now under private ownership.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">White Hall (Princess Anne, Maryland)</span> Historic house in Maryland, United States

White Hall is a historic home located at Princess Anne, Somerset County, Maryland, United States. It is a 2+12-story, ell shaped frame house constructed about 1785–1798. The house features a rare mid-19th-century mural painting depicting landscapes and period costumes survives in a second-floor room, a Flemish bond brick gable end wall, and the three-room plan divided by a center hall.

The Beauchamp House, also known as Washburn House or Long Farm, is a historic home located at Westover, Somerset County, Maryland, United States. It is a 1+12-story brick-ended hall / parlor frame house standing at the head of the Annemessex River. The main house was built in two stages, beginning with a hall-plan house, built about 1710–1730. During the second half of the 18th century, the structure was enlarged by the addition of two downstairs rooms, which were later consolidated into one.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cedar Hill (Westover, Maryland)</span> Historic house in Maryland, United States

Cedar Hill, also known as Long Farm, is a historic home located at Westover, Somerset County, Maryland, United States. It is a 2+12-story T-shaped frame dwelling, on a brick foundation. The main section was erected in 1793, and followed a modified hall / parlor plan. Also on the property are an 1880 bi-level hay-and-horse barn with a long shed addition for dairy stalls, a 19th-century granary, a late-19th-century corn crib, a rusticated concrete block well house, and a rusticated concrete dairy.

Liberty Hall, also known as Armstrong's Lott, is a historic home located at Westover, Somerset County, Maryland, United States. It is a 2+12-story house that sits on a high brick foundation.

Brentwood Farm, also known as Adams Purchase and Smith's Adventure, is a historic home located at Westover, Somerset County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story three-bay Flemish bond brick house built about 1738. The house was enlarged by a well-designed Shingle-style / Colonial Revival addition in 1916.

Salisbury Plantation is a historic house located at Westover, Somerset County, Maryland. It has two principal sections: a 19th-century, two-story plus attic clapboard section whose roof ridge runs east to west, and a first-quarter-18th-century 1+12-story brick section with its ridge running north to south.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Caldicott</span> Historic house in Maryland, United States

Caldicott, also known as Vessey House and Essex Farm, is a historic home located at Rehobeth, Somerset County, Maryland, United States. It is a large frame dwelling constructed between 1784 and 1798 by Littleton Dennis Jr. The house stands two stories above a raised basement of Flemish bond brick. Also on the property are a gambrel-roofed barn, sheds and storage buildings, and a water tower.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jeptha Hayman House</span> Historic house in Maryland, United States

The Jeptha Hayman House, also known as Hayman Farm, is a historic home in Kingston, Somerset County, Maryland, United States. It is a two-story, five-bay weatherboard frame dwelling in the Greek Revival style. The oldest portion is dated by an inscribed brick to 1836, with an addition from about 1850. It features a Tuscan-columned porch supported on a rusticated concrete block knee wall.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kingston Hall</span> Historic house in Maryland, United States

Kingston Hall is a historic home located at Kingston, Somerset County, Maryland. Located along the Big Annemessex River, it is a Georgian style dwelling of two stories plus an attic, three bays wide by two deep, connected by a one-story brick hyphen to a two-story-plus-loft brick kitchen wing. Also on the property is the brick, circular ice house. The interior of the house features corner fireplaces. Interior woodwork mouldings are in a transitional style, bridging late Georgian and Federal styles.

Williams' Conquest, also known as Williams' Green, is a historic home located at Marion Station, Somerset County, Maryland, United States. It is a 1+12-story Flemish bond brick house constructed about 1733 on Gales Creek. Additions occurred between 1825 and 1850 with the frame kitchen with an exterior chimney on the gable end, and a smaller utility wing added in 1968. The house represent the first phase of permanent Somerset County buildings that have survived to modern times.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Make Peace</span> Historic house in Maryland, United States

Make Peace is a historic home located at Crisfield, Somerset County, Maryland, United States.

Tudor Hall, also known as Lockerman House, is a historic home located at Upper Fairmount, Somerset County, Maryland, United States. It is a 2+12-story beaded clapboard house, three bays wide by three deep, and built about 1780. The house features a brick colonnade, now in ruins.

Reward, also known as Williams Point Farm, is a historic home located at Shelltown, Somerset County, Maryland, United States. It is a 1+12-story, gable-front brick dwelling with a steep gable roof with two diamond-shaped chimney stacks piercing the east slope of the roof. The main block is constructed of whitewashed brick laid in Flemish bond.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Grace Episcopal Church (Mt. Vernon, Maryland)</span> Historic church in Maryland, United States

Grace Episcopal Church is an historic frame Episcopal church located at Mt. Vernon, Somerset County, Maryland. Built in 1846–1847, it is a single-story, three-bay Carpenter Gothic-style church on a brick foundation. Also on the property is a 19th and 20th century cemetery.

Rock Creek Methodist Episcopal Church is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at Chance, Somerset County, Maryland. It is a cross-plan Gothic-style church supported by a continuous common bond brick foundation, built in 1900. It features a three-story bell tower capped by a pyramidal spire. Also on the property is a single-story "L"-shaped frame church hall built in 1928.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Coventry Parish Ruins</span> Historic church in Maryland, United States

Coventry Parish Ruins are the remnants of a historic Episcopal church located at Rehobeth, Somerset County, Maryland. Coventry Parish was one of the original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland established when Maryland's legislators established the Church of England as the colony's government-supported religion in 1692. These old parishes often had a church and several chapels of ease near population centers. This building, stands surrounded by farm fields and a historic Presbyterian Church near the Pocomoke River in what was then called Rehoboth but is now Rehobeth, Maryland to distinguish it from a beachfront community in Delaware.

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. Paul B. Touart (October 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Arlington" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-03-01.